Bug#845638: Compatibility with xserver 1.19 / xorg-video-abi-23

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 09:48 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:30:22 +0000 Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Control: forcemerge 845638 845000
> > 
> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:01:20 +0100 Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
> > > Version: 367.57-2
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Control: block 843265 by -1
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > > your package is part of the ongoing xserver 1.19 transition #843265.
> > > Please make your xorg driver package compatible with xserver 1.19 (i.e.
> > > supporting xorg-video-abi-23).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andreas
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Version 375.20 supports ABI 23 and it's ready in SVN (branches/375),
> > needs some reviewing and testing.
> > 
> > Andreas, we'd need to push 370 to unstable first to follow the workflow
> > I guess. Do you have time to have a look?
> 
> Why not skip that and just upload 375 from experimental to unstable?
> 
> Emilio

Because 375.20 introduces more changes than the Xorg ABI compatibility,
most importantly the glvnd-rized libEGL, so we need to introduce support
for that and test it.

See existing thread on the ML:

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-November/013663.html

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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