Bug#787582: VDPAU needed

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Julien,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:14:01 -0700 Vincent Cheng <vcheng at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Julien Aubin <jul.aubin at laposte.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In that case could you please also put the libvdpau1 and libvdpau1:i386
>> > packages in experimental ?
>>
>> No, because AFAIK packages in experimental can't share the same
>> version as a package already uploaded to sid (because packages
>> belonging to the latter suite supersede packages in experimental with
>> the same/older versions).
>>
>> > They're actually required to install nvidia-driver 352 and the only way
>> > we
>> > currently have to install these updates is to pin these packages from
>> > testing. (And actually we'd need them in backports)
>>
>> If it helps, I can upload src:libvdpau to jessie-backports.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Yes this would be really great as it breaks recent versions of the NVidia
> driver and it will be needed anyway.

Uploaded [1], just waiting approval from backports ftpmasters (as is
usual for any new backports packages).

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libvdpau_1.1-1~bpo8+1.html