Bug#815060: Encouraging removal of nvidia kernel modules from Debian non-free archive.

Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org
Sat Feb 20 21:46:21 UTC 2016


On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:02:59PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Especially when there is a technical alternative that provides an almost
> identical user experience for Debian users who need nvidia.ko: a
> downloader/installer package like nvidia-graphics-drivers used to be
> many years ago [1,2].

We already provide -dkms and -source packages as well, so users can
build these (nondistributable) modules themselves just fine. 

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