backporting nvidia to squeeze

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> now that most things have settled, I think time has come to consider
> backporting the current nvidia driver to squeeze. In about a week my
> last upload series should enter wheezy and we will have a driver there
> that supports Xserver 1.11 without slowing down on older cards.  To get
> a working backport, we need

> * glx-alternatives (0.2.0~bpo60+1) - already prepared in SVN

> * nvidia-support (???~bpo60+1) - not yet prepared as there may be
> translation updates incoming

> * nvidia-graphics-drivers (275.36-something)
>   I'd like to get 280.13.really.275.36-1 uploaded with a less confusing
>   version number 275.36-0~bpo60+1 - would that be OK for a backport?

> As backports.d.o doesn't support DM uploads, I'd need your help again to
> upload these when the time comes.

No problem.  And that sounds great.

> Are there more things to be considered for a backport?

The legacy drivers, if NVIDIA ever releases new versions of them.  Nothing
else that I can think of off-hand... I think the nvidia-xconfig and
nvclock packages haven't changed sufficiently and aren't sufficiently
interesting to bother.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>