Hi lumin, Andreas On 7 October 2016 at 17:24, lumin <cdlumin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I downloaded the tarball, and I may hopefully finish the patchset > within a week or two. Is this acceptable for Ubuntu freeze exception?
I've managed to get a Feature Freeze Exception (LP: #1630162) [1], but Yakkety releases on Thursday [2], so that leaves us with very little time. I think if we can get something into SVN within the next 24 hours, I can upload that directly to Ubuntu as 8.0.44-0ubuntu1. I did the same for 7.5.18-0ubuntu1 for the Xenial release, but I was able to grab the orig.tar from SVN [4]. I don't see the 8.0.44 tarball there yet, so I hope the tarball generation is deterministic, or else we just need to make sure we upload the same tarball to Debian as we do to Ubuntu. > And what about the Debian Stretch freeze? Uploading nvidia-cuda-toolkit starts a small transition of its reverse-dependencies; eztrace-contrib, hwloc-contrib, pycuda, starpu-contrib, etc. Debian Stretch Transition Freeze is on 2016-11-05 [5], so we should request a transition slot from Release Team before then. Unfortunately my uni remains closed and I am still on limited internet at home. I'm sorry I can't help with the initial packaging, but if you are able to get something ready for upload into SVN, I will find a way to generate the tarball, test building the reverse-dependencies and upload directly to Ubuntu. Regards Graham [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/+bug/1630162 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseSchedule [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/7.5.18-0ubuntu1 [4] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/tarballs/ [5] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
