Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Dear Release Team Please consider a freeze exception for a new upstream release of nvidia-cuda-toolkit. Version 10.1 adds support for GCC 8 and Clang 7. This will allow us to drop gcc-7 from buster, as the only other packages needing gcc-7 are starpu and starpu-contrib (#924012) which will follow CUDA. nvidia-cuda-toolkit is non-free and the build consists of unpacking the pre-built binaries from upstream and repacking them into several separate binary packages for Debian. At this stage, 10.0 is in experimental, and I still need to prepare the packaging for 10.1 and have it go through NEW. For what it is worth, Ubuntu completed the transition to 10.0 two weeks ago, and I intend to test and complete the 10.1 transition there as well before finally asking for an unblock for buster. Regards Graham
