Bug#1073682: nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-support: move aliased files from / to /usr (DEP17)

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:31:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Does this work for bullseye as well? src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470
> frequently gets rebuilt for bullseye-pu and I prefer to have minimal
> differences between the packages in sid, bookworm and bullseye.

No. We did not backport the addon to bullseye. Packages in need of
backporting there tend to use a different rune:

override_dh_installdeb:
	! command -v dh_movetousr >/dev/null || dh_movetousr
	dh_installdeb

Since this command turns itself into a noop in earlier releases and it
is all that is being added, it can be skipped on older releases like
this.

Is this good enough for your purpose?

> But given the fact that the 470 driver series is scheduled for EoL in July
> 2024, it won't be released with trixie (but will stay in sid for as long as
> people still need it for legacy hardware (and it's possible to keep the
> module compilable for new kernels) like the 340 and 390 series), this bug
> will probably be "wontfix".

The other route is upgrading this bug into an rc bug and letting the
autoremover do its work. I'll leave this up to you and note that we'll
be bumping this bug to rc after DebConf.

Anyhow. Thanks for letting us know where this is going.

Helmut