Uploading 375.10 to experimental

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 19:35 -0300, Ignacio R. Morelle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 375.10 adds support for the 1050 and 1050 TI cards, which are probably
> > going to be quite popular thanks to their price range.
> > 
> > I created the 375 branch and I am running this new version on my
> > machines, if I don't find any issues and if there are no objections I
> > will upload to experimental tomorrow evening so that users with this
> > hardware can use Debian.
> 
> I'm just a user, not a packager, but in my opinion it might worth considering
> skipping this release, pending upstream's response to any new issues brought  
> up. I decided to give 375.10 a try (built the packages from the SVN 375 
> branch, r6940) since my experience with suspend/hibernate and NVIDIA's drivers 
> as of late has been quite hit-and-miss, but after upgrading I get the Plasma 
> screen locker issue mentioned in this forum thread:
> 
> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/972736/linux/some-applications-crash-on-exit-with-nvidia-375-10/
> 
> Perhaps it's just me, but breaking a desktop environment's screen locker in 
> exchange for new hardware support doesn't seem worth it.
> 
> (Note: I'm not subscribed to this list.)

Hi,

375.10 is a beta release and debian experimental is, well, experimental,
so normally I wouldn't mind a little temporary regression to allow new
hardware support.

But if a whole desktop environment becomes unusable, then it's a
different story of course. I run Gnome normally and I only did a quick
test yesterday.

It seems I can't reach devtalk.nvidia.com right now (504 timeout), I'll
have a look as soon as I can reach it again.

In the meanwhile I'll hold back any upload until either a new version or
a usable workaround is available to avoid major regressions for KDE
users.

Thanks for the feedback!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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