backports of nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-{173, 96}xx [non-free]

[Alexander Wirt]

Andreas Beckmann schrieb am Sunday, den 04. March 2012:

> Dear backports team,
> 
> I'm considering having backports of nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-173xx
> and nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx uploaded to squeeze-backports.
> 
> These packages are not available in testing because they do not support
> the X version there, but they work fine with X from stable.
> Therefore I'm asking for an exception to backport the versions from
> unstable.
> 
> Changes compared to the version currently in stable:
> 
> * support for kernel 3.2
> * a few upstream fixes
> * new diversion/alternatives handling (via glx-alternatives, already
> backported and used by the nvidia-graphics-drivers backport)
> 
> There have been questions about these backports on IRC, usually
> assisting the users to do their own backport.
I am not really sure if this is a good idea. How are these backports tested?

Alex