OK thanks a lot. You cannot do anything even in the experimental repo ? For the severity I'm OK with important, however in the coming months it will be more and more critical.
2016-06-15 19:20 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>: > Control: severity -1 important > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 18:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote: > > Package: nvidia-driver > > Version: 352.79-1~bpo8+1 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > > Hello, > > > > GPUs GeForce 10xx are out now for several weeks, and the first stable > Linux > > driver series which support them is 367.27 available from there : > > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/104284/en-us > > > > Note this is a LTS branch for the drivers. > > > > Users of this hardware will be unable to reach any usable X session, nor > > using > > any graphical mode. The bug is critical as this hardware will become more > > and > > more widespread over time. > > Sorry but this bug is not critical nor grave, as it clearly only affect > a given specific configuration, and not all (and not even the majority) > of the users of the package. So it would be a grave disservice for the > vast majority of users to remove the package from the archive and the > distribution, for whom the driver works just fine, only because it's too > old to work with some new hardware. Hence the downgrading. > > > So could you please : > > 1/ at least upload this driver version on experimental repo so that it is > > installable using jessie w/ backports, testing and sid ? > > 2/ integrate this driver for stretch release, which seems reasonable > since > > the > > development window is still 6 months away ? > > > > Please notify me when you've packaged it to experimental so that I could > > give > > it a test with my current hardware. Once I've upgraded to a GeForce 10xx > > I'll > > perform the test again with various games. > > > > Many thanks and regards > > The newer releases are all packaged and ready, but the uploads are in > the new queue, in some cases since February. There is literally nothing > we as maintainers can do until they have been manually approved by the > FTP masters. > > Meanwhile, you can build the package from our SVN repositories following > the instructions on the wiki: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN > > Feedback on the current state of the packages in SVN is greatly > appreciated. Feel free to open bugs if you find any issue with them. > > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi >
