Legacy driver package missing from Debian Stretch...?

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 07:48 -0500, Yvan Laguë wrote:
> HI from Quebec City, Canada...
> 
> I am running Debian testing (Stretch) with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT video 
> card, using the proprietary legacy driver usually provided by the 
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver package, which seems no longer available in 
> the non-free branch of the Debian Stretch repository...?
> 
> On a regular update of my system last Friday or Saturday, that package 
> was automatically removed from my system.
> 
> I seem unable to reinstall the package from the unstable repository, 
> because of a dependency problem related to the xserver-xorg-core 
> package... ( version installed is: 2:1.19.0-2 but version 2:1.18.99 
> would be required, and does not seems available.)
> 
> Is this a temporary problem, or has support for the legacy driver been 
> dropped from Debian Stretch...?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mr Yvan Laguë

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845640

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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