Bug#685059: unblock: nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx/173.14.35-1

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx

I know this is a new package (actually a fork of an older version of
nvidia-settings) and therefore would not qualify for adding it to wheezy
during freeze ... but

* nvidia-settings has been compatible with nvidia-graphics-drivers and
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-* up to version 295.xx, this has
  changed in 302.xx (but since it always had worked, nobody tested the
  new nvidia-settings on nvidia-grapichs-drivers-legacy-173xx)
* we only became aware of this problem when the 302.17 nvidia
  driver+settings+xconfig migrated to testing (after freeze): #681182
* we started testing nvidia-settings + legacy 173xx driver immediately,
  found it non-operational and packaged nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx
* the nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx has entered sid before the first user
  noticed the problem, which happened today in #685049

The raw diffstat between nvidia-settings 295.49 and 304.37 is
  148 files changed, 6602 insertions(+), 16331 deletions(-)
which makes it problematic to re-add legacy support: 302.xx (-driver and
-settings) changes many things related to Xrandr and probably the
pre-xrandr code paths no longer exist in -settings.

nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx is the same version as shipped by nvidia
together with the 173xx legacy driver - it may have less features than
295.xx, but these are not needed for 173xx legacy drivers anyway.

nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx is a leaf package in contrib, there are no
other packages affected by adding this package (only
nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx needs to update its Suggests from
nvidia-settings to -legacy-173xx)
And nvidia-settings 304.37-1 (in sid) has been updated to conflict with
pre-302 drivers and legacy drivers, so once this gets into wheezy users
wont be able to use the not working combination any longer, but they
will need a working alternative.

unblock nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx/173.14.35-1


Andreas