Questions regarding Debian nvidia packages

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
>>> 2) What's the process of splitting and uploading a new legacy driver?
>>> According to [3], the 340 series is the next legacy driver (being the
>>> last version to support pre-Fermi cards it seems), and I've yet to
>>> stumble across documentation describing all the gotchas that are
>>> involved in packaging a new legacy driver. As for timing, would you
>>> agree that this is best done after Jessie is released?
>>
>> That sounds like a good idea -> nothing newer than 340.xx max go to
>> unstable, and we have a long-term release in jessie where we may get
>> upstream update releases (think security)
>
> Ack. What I really wanted to ask was _how_ to go about preparing a new
> legacy package. I suppose most of the process is manual? e.g. updating
> nvidia-detect, updating alternatives, updating package names, probably
> lots of other stuff I haven't thought of?

Ping? (wanted to know the answer just in case you're not around to
deal with the package split after jessie is released...perhaps should
be documented in README.source?)

Regards,
Vincent