Bug#843265: transition: xorg-server

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 09/12/16 12:08, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 17:38:17 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
> <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>> We have been working on the new xserver for the past month. I have been
>> running it for a week or two without any issues. Some drivers fail to
>> build, but they have fixes in upstream git that we will apply. But most
>> drivers just need a binNMU.
> 
> A new upstream release of nvidia-graphics-drivers adding support for
> xserver 1.19 is now in unstable.
> There haven't been any new upstream releases for the 340 and 304 legacy
> driver series, yet. I don't mind if they get removed from stretch
> temporarily (to unblock the transition, if a package in non-free can
> "block" it at all) in the hope that we can get an exception to let them
> back in even in later freeze phases (in case there would be new upstream
> releases before the release of stretch).

The xserver 1.19 is in testing now.

I removed the old nvidia drivers and a few other video and input drivers that
are not updated and are rather dead.

Cheers,
Emilio