Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Eric Valette]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:49:48 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2016-02-04 10:55, Nick T. wrote:
> > Hello Andreas,
> >
> > The 355.11-1 version is 7 months old already which is way outdated already for newer games(e.g. XCOM-2 comming out this Friday needs 355.63 and above) the newest version on nvidias website is 358.16.
> > And also according to #813565 the new driver is not compatible with sids X abi.
>
> With a reasonably recent driver in unstable and testing (352.79)
> experimental was finally free for testing upstream reorganization (new
> packages needed, new module build system, new kernel module), so at the
> moment experimental is actually experimental :-)

The biggest problem is that the version uploaded to experimental cannot 
run with unstable : it does no even support abi-20 and forcing 
-ignoreABI just makes the drivers crash.

So please at least put in experimental something that do work with 
unstable. It broke my system for a reason that the usual excuse cannot 
cover

-- eric