Bug#919647: CUDA 9.2.148 depends on driver version 396.37 or higher

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Giuseppe Bilotta, le ven. 18 janv. 2019 11:41:28 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:45 AM Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> > On 2019-01-18 10:19, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> > > Package: nvidia-cuda-dev
> > > Version: 9.2.148-5
> > > Severity: important
> >
> > > it is currently impossible to do any CUDA development and deployment in
> > > (a fresh install of) Debian testing and unstable, due to an
> > > incompatibility between the available CUDA toolkit version and the
> > > available NVIDIA driver versions.
> >
> > It was intentional relax the driver dependency in order to perform the
> > CUDA 9.2 transition in time for the transition freeze.
> > Please use the drivers from experimental for CUDA.
> > I don't want to upload a new driver version to unstable before I got the
> > driver in stretch updated to the well tested 390.xx series in sid.
> 
> Thanks for the reply. So I assume you expect to be able to complete
> the upgrade of stretch to 390.xx and the subsequent migration of
> 410.xx to testing and unstable before the hard freeze? Otherwise, I'm
> a bit worried that with this early transition we'll end up having an
> unusable CUDA in buster.

We are now just waiting for the nvidia-graphics-drivers migration, which
depends on hashcat-nvidia dropping the nvidia-smi dependency on i386.

Samuel