Bug#822434: patch for building 8.0.27-1, based on 7.5.18-2

[Graham Inggs]

Hi lumin, Andreas

On 7 October 2016 at 17:24, lumin <cdluminate at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the tarball, and I may hopefully finish the patchset
> within a week or two. Is this acceptable for Ubuntu freeze exception?

I've managed to get a Feature Freeze Exception (LP: #1630162) [1], but
Yakkety releases on Thursday [2], so that leaves us with very little
time.  I think if we can get something into SVN within the next 24
hours, I can upload that directly to Ubuntu as 8.0.44-0ubuntu1.
I did the same for 7.5.18-0ubuntu1 for the Xenial release, but I was
able to grab the orig.tar from SVN [4].
I don't see the 8.0.44 tarball there yet, so I hope the tarball
generation is deterministic, or else we just need to make sure we
upload the same tarball to Debian as we do to Ubuntu.

> And what about the Debian Stretch freeze?

Uploading nvidia-cuda-toolkit starts a small transition of its
reverse-dependencies; eztrace-contrib, hwloc-contrib, pycuda,
starpu-contrib, etc.
Debian Stretch Transition Freeze is on 2016-11-05 [5], so we should
request a transition slot from Release Team before then.

Unfortunately my uni remains closed and I am still on limited internet at home.
I'm sorry I can't help with the initial packaging, but if you are able
to get something ready for upload into SVN, I will find a way to
generate the tarball, test building the reverse-dependencies and
upload directly to Ubuntu.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/+bug/1630162
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseSchedule
[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/7.5.18-0ubuntu1
[4] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/tarballs/
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch