Bug#787582: VDPAU needed

[Julien Aubin]

Hi,

I've found a bug in your new packaging.

In your release notes you state that you removed package
nvidia-kernel-common but actually nvidia-kernel-support stills depend on it.
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-kernel-support

Changes are there :
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_352.55-2_changelog
(And package 340.93-6 actually removes dependency on nvidia-kernel-support)

Could you please fix it ?

Thanks


2015-10-18 16:39 GMT+02:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com>:

> Do you also have the nasty bug ID ? I could try to reproduce it (and maybe
> give a clue about some fix...)
>
> 2015-10-18 14:30 GMT+02:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com>:
>
>> No problem I've pushed a WA in the bug report. If you could put it in the
>> wiki. I never managed to create an account on it
>> Le 18 oct. 2015 14:23, "Luca Boccassi" <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The problem is that until now you guaranteed that NVidia drivers could
>>> > be installed for Maxwell GPU owners using your experimental repo, and
>>> > now this is no longer the case.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Cf. documentation :
>>> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I perfectly understand your point but this is a problem for anyone
>>> > upgrading their GPU. So until the moment glx-alternative-nvidia is in
>>> > backports repo could you please revert to 352.41 ?
>>>
>>> Hi Julien,
>>>
>>> Sorry for these troubles.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately we are facing a rather nasty bug with devices permissions,
>>> which might have bad implications, and we don't have a definitive
>>> comprehensive solution yet. So for a little while longer things in
>>> unstable/experimental will be in a bit of flux. After all, that's what
>>> unstable and experimental are for :-)
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, users can either (as Andreas already suggested) install all
>>> the binary packages of glx-alternatives from sid (glx-diversions,
>>> glx-alternative-nvidia, glx-alternative-mesa) or pin the nvidia-driver
>>> to the previous version, 352.41. This can be done with "sudo apt-mark
>>> hold <package-name>". This way your update/dist-upgrade won't be broken.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Luca Boccassi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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