On 5/14/25 18:13, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 10:01 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
The ppc64el removal has an impact on the whole nvidia stack and the
IMO easiest workaround is to fork the last driver supporting ppc64el
to have a package satisfying the otherwise broken dependencies. This
package won't see further updates (due to lack of upstream support
for ppc64el) and will therefore accumulate CVEs ...
(I haven't started with the ppc64el removal in sid, yet, so I can't
give an estimation of the effort doing that in bookworm, too.)
Assuming that I didn't fail in my tool driving, this results in 37
binary packages on ppc64el that will be cruft after the point release.
Should we be trying to clean at least some of those up duirng the point
release, or leaving them for now and assuming there'll be a plan for
dealing with them for 12.12?
37 matches my expectations. 33 of them have direct replacements from
src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-535. These four will be gone without
replacement:
- nvidia-cuda-mps (the only "real" loss as this removes a feature)
- nvidia-detect
- nvidia-legacy-check
- nvidia-libopencl1
Please try to clean up as much cruft as possible and let me know if
there are any leftovers.
Thanks.
Andreas
