Bug#883615: Acknowledgement ([CRITICAL] Stretch p-u 9.3 breaks NVidia driver and X.org)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 11:37 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-12-06 10:53, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > Okay I will try it. Could you please provide me the build guide and
> > install
> > guide ?
> 
> From README.source:
> 
> Building "bleeding edge" from SVN for users
> 
>     As new upstream versions of the proprietary driver are released,
> upload
>     might not happen immediately. This might be for various reasons,
> including
>     waiting for new binary packages to clear the NEW queue.
>     Users wishing to try to build new version locally can follow the
>     instructions on the Debian wiki:
> 
>     https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_rele
> ases_from_SVN
> 
>     WARNING: these will most likely be work in progress, and the
> final upload
>     may be different and may not support clean upgrades from/to the
> versions
>     uploaded in the archive.
> 
> 
> In your case, it is branches/384-stretch-backports.
> 
> Please let us know about any issues you encounter with these
> instructions.
> 
> 
> Andreas

375.82 has been in sid/buster for months now, it's very strange that it
wasn't reported before - a GLX crash is not a subtle problem that might
get overlooked

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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