Bug#1012713: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Fails to build from source: 510.73.08 missing upstream

Sun Jun 12 17:12:51 BST 2022

Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 510.73.08-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
I am trying to build the associated flathub packages for 510.73.08 and they seem to be completely absent upstream
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I tried to build the git 510 branch from source.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
The get-orig-source command failed.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
The upstream source should exist?

curl  https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.73.08/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.73.08.run results in 404
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<title>404 - Not Found</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<h1>404 - Not Found</h1>
		<script type="text/javascript" src="//wpc.75674.betacdn.net/0075674/www/ec_tpm_bcon.js"></script>
	</body>
</html>

It seems that the version 510.73.08 is completely absent upstream. The archive page only lists 510.73.05 from this
series. I'm not sure where this version came from, there seems to be little reference to it outside of debian's
ecosystem. Perhaps this was a prelude to the opensourcing somehow??

It's frustrating that this is completely unbuildable now. I'm guessing the adoption of the 515 branch is going to
be held up in debian-legal for some time, because of obvious reasons.

Is it perhaps that this is secretly 510.73.05 and got the wrong number somehow?

Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.1-tkg-pds (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)