Bug#702734: [nvidia-detect] please move nvidia-detect out of non-free

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-03-13 03:48, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> I don't mind the license. I'm just saying if we split nvidia-detect,
> we'll have to clarify its license. It doesn't have a clear license
> (which is technically already a small problem) today, but that won't be
> a problem, as I'll happily license it under any terms requested.

I've now added
+# Copyright © 2008-2011 Filipus Klutiero <chealer at gmail.com>
+# Copyright © 2011-2013 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>
and put it under the GPL2+ (as the current packaging is GPL2+, too)

> So you're saying changing the section requires splitting from n-g-d?

I don't think a (binary) package in contrib can be built from a source
package in non-free as that is a different "archive area"

> I suspected that splitting the source packages would make updates more
> complicated, although I can't appreciate the cost.

Probably have the pciids shipped in some package and have nvidia-detect
build-depend on this and just copy the current file.


> I agree it's "fine". I really meant it would be *better* to keep
> nvidia-detect up-to-date.
> I'm not sure a backport for nvidia-detect is the intended use. I see
> backports as appropriate for updates which could introduce breakage. If
> we do ourselves a risk-free update, I think it should go directly in
> stable.

I don't think this qualifies for a stable update. There is
"stable-updates" for packages that require frequent updates to stay
useful in a stable release (e.g. virus scanners, tzdata, ...) without
being security updates (that would be "stable/updates").
Anything else could only go via stable-proposed-updates into the next
point release and that should be important or serious bugfixes, not new
features.

> But if we keep updates in backports anyway, then we could at
> least prepare stable's nvidia-detect to suggest upgrading to backports
> if the card is unknown (or refer to the wiki's version, or to NVIDIA's
> website).

Hmm, that could be an option for now.

+ echo "Newer driver releases may be available in backports."


Andreas