nvidia-* is part of the key package set
Andreas Beckmann
anbe at debian.org
Mon Mar 13 09:46:58 GMT 2023
Hi Graham,
I just noticed that nvidia-modprobe is blocked because it is a key
package. No, I don't want it unblocked now. (Only if we decide to switch
the whole (non-tesla) driver stack to 530+).
But I got curious why it is a key package ... most likely due to this:
src:nvidia-settings/main builds
bin:libxnvctrl-dev/main (build-depended upon by several likely
(transitive) key packages)
bin:nvidia-settings/contrib (transitively depends on the driver etc.)
Would it help the release team if I split (well, duplicate) the source
package into one in main and one in contrib? We already have two copies
of the same source tarball, once as src:nvidia-settings, once as
src:nvidia-settings-tesla (at least most of the time while both drivers
are in sync in their major version).
From the nvidia side it would further unify the packaging of
src:nvidia-settings[-tesla*].
If that is desired, we could do it now or post bookworm.
Andreas
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