Bug#1081302: nvidia-graphics-drivers: New upstream releases 550 (production) and 560 (new-feature)

[Simon McVittie]

Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 545.23.06-2
Severity: wishlist

According to https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/ the 545 branch
has been superseded by:

* Latest Production Branch Version: 550.78
* Latest New Feature Branch Version: 560.35.03

I'm not completely clear on which of these is suitable for experimental
and which is suitable for testing/unstable, but it would be great if the
v545 packaging in experimental could be replaced with one of those.

According to
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/drivers/index.html#cuda-drivers
the 535 branch is still the current long-term-support branch for data
centre use, and 550 is the shorter-lifetime production branch for data
centre use (but I don't know whether that has any impact on the support
lifetime of the corresponding consumer drivers, and 535 is no longer listed
on https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/ at all, which might indicate
that it's no longer a supported version for consumer/gaming use-cases).

I would guess the most appropriate thing might be 550 in experimental
first, possibly followed by 550 in unstable and 560 in experimental?

There are indications that Vulkan games like Dota 2, when running on newer
GPUs, might need a newer driver than the v535 that we currently have in
Debian: <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2787>.
But I don't have an affected GPU, so I'm unable to confirm that.

Thanks,
    smcv