Updating nvidia-driver to 346.xx, and split separate nvidia-340 source package?

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2015-05-12 10:42, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> Hi Andreas (and everyone else following on the list),
>>
>> Is there a documented process on how to update and split a separate
>> legacy driver package? Aside from actually creating and uploading a
>> new "nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx" source package, what other
>> packages need to be updated in lockstep?
>
> This time nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx will be a bit more
> involved since we need to rename more kernel modules ... as well as
> doing something with cuda as well.

Ack, I suspected there was more work involved...

> Anyway I pushed 346.59 to experimental to add support for a bunch of new
> hardware.
> I'd prefer to have a working legacy-340xx in unstable before moving
> nidia-graphics-drivers to a new upstream release there (>> 340),
> unfortunately I didn't find the time to look into the new legacy one yet
> after the jessie release.
> It will be the first thing for me to handle once I'm back from holidays
> in the first week of June.

Good to hear, thanks! I guess for now I'll work on some of the easier
tasks outside of the transition (nvidia-graphics-modules needs to be
updated now that linux 4.0 is in sid, and a new upstream 346.xx
release was made that should be packaged for experimental; I'll tackle
those first).

Once the transition is all complete, I think we'd want to backport
346.xx to jessie as well for the added hardware support, right?

Regards,
Vincent