Any plans for a -legacy-304xx package?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 30 23:35:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:05:45AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Yes, but only after wheezy was released.
> 
> Rough roadmap:
> 
> * ngd: drop transitional packages (*-ia32 etc)
> * ngd: add new packages (nvidia-cuda-proxy)
> * use improved blacklist handling (currently nvidia-support and
>   glx-alternatives in experimental)
> * maybe rename some packages for consistency - there is at least one
>   bug about this (e.g. I'm considering to rename the metapackage
>   nvidia-glx -> nvidia-driver)
> * make nvidia-settings* co-installable and put them under the
>   alternatives umbrella (there are bugs with patches)
> * forward these changes to the legacy drivers
> * upload new legacy 173xx release
> * drop 71xx legacy
> * upload new 304xx releases if available
> * get all packages into testing
> * get all packages into wheezy-backports
> * probably add nvidia-settings 304-legacy
> * fork 304-legacy, let it take the libxvmcnvidia1 package
> * upload new releases to sid
> * get 304-legacy and new upstream releases into testing and backports
> 
> This will take some time.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> PS: if there is need for 310 releases (the current long lived branch) I
> can put packages somewhere - experimental already has 313 (short lived
> branch)

Sounds like a good plan.

-- 
Len Sorensen



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