backports of nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-{173, 96}xx [non-free]
Alexander Wirt
formorer at formorer.de
Sun Mar 4 16:18:22 UTC 2012
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
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