Bug#1005804: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx: does not depend on xorg-video-abi-25

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 15/02/2022 12.15, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx
> Version: 390.147-1+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz
> says:
> 
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx (390.147-1+b1) sid; urgency=low, binary-only=yes

Since the driver is a binary compiled by NVIDIA, we can't add support 
for newer X server by just recompiling it ... there is a harcoded list 
of supported xorg-video-abi-XX alternatives.

If you force the installation of the driver with the new X server, can 
you confirm that the driver works without complaining about an ABI mismatch?

So far nvidia hasn't mentioned in their changelog that they added 
support for the new X server with the bumped ABI (while they did that in 
the past), but there are some reports out in the wild claiming that 
NVIDIA actually added support ...


Andreas