backporting nvidia to squeeze

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Russ,

On 2011-11-07 00:48, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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

... tomorrow or the day after ...

>> 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)
* nvidia-support (20111111+1~bpo60+1)
* nvidia-graphics-drivers (275.36-0~bpo60+1)

Everything is prepared in SVN in branches/squeeze-backports.

It would be nice if you could upload them, eventually the upload date
should be bumped at that time.

I tested multiple update scenarios with piuparts and so far this seems
to work fine.

>> Are there more things to be considered for a backport?
> 
> The legacy drivers, if NVIDIA ever releases new versions of them.  Nothing

We could also backport the current releases (after merging current
n-g-d) - even if they don't support latest Xserver 1.11 (but that is
currently not needed, squeeze has 1.7 and squeeze-backports 1.10), they
bring support for newer kernels, e.g. the bpo kernel. But so far I
haven't seen such a request or bug report.

Andreas