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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-03-04 17:18, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> I am not really sure if this is a good idea. How are these backports tested?

I don't have any hardware that requires the legacy drivers, I'm not sure
if anyone from the Debian NVIDIA Maintainers still has.
There are some users that still need the legacy drivers (but I don't
have any contact information at hand). I don't know how big the userbase
actually is (according to popcon there are about 30 submissions that
have the version from sid installed and about 250 submissions with the
version from squeeze or newer (I can distinguish them according to
package splits) - that holds for both 173xx and 96xx) and I haven't
heard of any problems getting the legacy drivers from sid to work with
squeeze's Xorg. (Which requires self-backporting to disable multiarch,
but the packaging already supports this: debian/rules
prepare-squeeze-backport.)
Upgrade paths and kernel module build are well tested. The
nvidia-graphics-drivers backport works fine (at least I haven't head of
any problems) and all the legacy drivers are based on the same packaging.

Andreas