please confirm build instructions in debian/README.source

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-08-01 19:14, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> I have a bug report on file with Nvidia for which they have asked me
> to try driver version 384.59.  I know if I use Nivida's installer,
> it will mess up my system completely.  So I am hoping to build proper
> Debian packages using source package nvidia-graphics-drivers with
> Nvidia's installer.
> 
> I am writing to ask whether the instructions in debian/README.source
> are up to date and are likely to be sufficient to enable me to build
> version 384.59.  (I have already hit a failure in the first step,
> which is uscan --report, and before continuing I thought it wise
> to check in.)

Just try the 384.59 packaging that is prepared in SVN, branches/384,
this will save you a lot of work. It's a work in progress, the final
upload may be different (and may not support clean upgrades from
384.59-1~svnX builds).

The README.source is primarily intended for the package maintainers, but
it's not checked frequently :-)
We should probably prepend a paragraph about building bleeding edge
driver packages from SVN. (@Luca: if you do this, put it in branches/304
s.t. it will propagate everywhere :-)


Andreas