Package: nvidia-cuda-toolkit Version: 10.1.168-6 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
in recent times, nvidia has been dropping support faster and faster for relatively old cards, that end up working only with legacy versions of the drivers. The Debian nvidia team has been doing an excellent work at making most things work seamlessly via the selection system. One notable exception is the cuda toolkit: while one can run cuda executables on a machine with the legacy drivers and cuda libraries (provided it does not require a cuda level higher than the one supported by the legacy driver), the development kit available in unstable is only version 10.x. This means, for example that I cannot anymore easily test/debug software on my laptop before running on the production machine (in my case remote, hosted in an HPC centre). Would it be possible to introduce legacy versions of the cuda SDK in unstable, possibly using the alternatives system to make them coexist smoothly as done for the runtime? Thanks in advance, best regards Giacomo Mulas
