Bug#996031: nvidia-driver breaks 'apt-get update' when kernel 5.14.6 is candidate kernel

[js jb]

I should add that making nvidia-driver conflict with later kernel versions for which it has not been tested is only an *example* solution,but clearly not the only way to keep apt-get upgrade working properly with nvidia-driver.
A more flexible solution would be to create an optional dummy package, nvidia-dkms-compat, with the same version as nvidia-kernel-dkmsbut which conflicts with later kernel versions than the ones where nvidia-kernel-dkms was tested.
Users that want to keep the current informal status can avoid installing nvidia-dkms-compat and rely on the description of nvidia-driver to choose newer kernel versions.

Users that do install nvidia-dkms-compat will be alerted through the usual apt methods that there is an incompatibility with a newer kernel.
Regardless of how this is solved, I think an important goal is that apt-get upgrade should work properly when nvidia-kernel-dkms is installed;this means that a newer kernel on which nvidia does not build will not be installed by default, not appear as a candidate upgrade version.

thanks,--jack
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