Bug#1012245: nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470: fails on ppc64el due to transitive GPL symbol usage

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Andreas,

On 21-08-2022 01:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 16:27:30 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:26:07 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> 
>> wrote:
>> > I've temporarily disabled the autopkgtest on ppc64el.
>>
>> That seems to be a kernel specific issue and appears to be fixed with 
>> Linux 5.19 in experimental (but is still reproducible in Linux 5.18).
>> Re-enabling the autopkgtests on ppc64el.
> 
> Can you ignore the autopkgtest "regression" on ppc64el and let the CVE 
> fixes into testing?

Yes, but please disable the test again or detect the kernel version and 
skip the test (exit 77 with the skippable restriction) if it's too low 
and you're on ppc64el because...

> Linux 5.19 seems to take longer getting into sid 

our hosts are running stable and we're using the lxc backend of 
autopkgtest. So you'll need to wait until a fixed kernel landed in 
stable(-security|-proposed-updates|).

> than I expected ...
> 
> src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470
> src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-510
> src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla

Paul
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