please confirm build instructions in debian/README.source

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 19:21 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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

I've committed to branches/304, but rather than adding the full
instructions, which will most likely get out of date, I've added a link
to:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_f
rom_SVN

Building from SVN requires internet access anyway so it should not be a
problem.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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