Bug#846030: package still unavailable?

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 12:16 +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 
> > Do you have the experimental sources in /etc/apt/sources.list ?
> 
> Actually I do, with very low priority (no automatic updates).
> 
> However, I do notice now that I only have main in my experimental source
> line, not contrib and non-free.  I remember that some (long) time ago I had
> to remove contrib and non-free because they were not provided, at least for
> some time, and I was sick of getting errors on each apt-get update.  Since
> then I never re-added contrib and non-free, I just did it now and indeed now
> I do see the nvidia packages.
> 
> Why did they not make it to unstable though?  Until they do, the bug is
> still present in unstable, isn't it?  Perhaps do mention explicitly
> somewhere that the packages solving the bug are only in experimental, so
> people will know where to find them.
> 
> Thanks, bye
> Giacomo Mulas

Because there is more in 375.20 than just the Xorg ABI bump, see this
discussion on the ML:

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-December/013732.html

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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