Your message dated Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:48:01 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1013462: fixed in nvidia-graphics-drivers 535.113.01-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1013462,
regarding libnvidia-allocator1 has worthless description
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Package: libnvidia-allocator1
Version: 510.73.08-2
This package has the following description:
Description-en: NVIDIA allocator runtime library
The NVIDIA binary driver provides optimized hardware acceleration of
OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES applications via a direct-rendering X Server
for graphics cards using NVIDIA chip sets.
.
This package contains the private nvidia-allocator runtime library.
This description says NOTHING that isn't in the package name. It's just a
trivial restatement of the name without any useful information. The name
"libnvidia-allocator1" already says that the package is somehow related to
nvidia and that it's a library called nvidia-allocator.
A package description should provide a brief summary of what the package
actually DOES and maybe some reason why I might want to install it (or NOT
install it), i.e. what actual benefit or utility it provides. "package foo
contains foo" is completely useless.
i.e. what does the "nvidia-allocator runtime library" do?
Is it some weird obscure thing that is only useful in very specialised
circumstances? or is it something that provides useful features or performance
enhancements or whatever in a lot of situations? Will it cause me problems
if I install it without actually needing it? Will not installing it cause
problems? Is it useful for graphics rendering? or only useful for CUDA
applications?
The purpose of a package description is to provide the user with enough
information to decide if it's something they might want to consider
installing. It's not just meaningless filler text that's only there to fulfil
the letter of debian policy requirements.
And yes, I'm aware that this package is far from the only one that has a
useless description, there are many other packages with descriptions that
are just "package foo provides foo". It's not even the only nvidia-related
package with a useless description. That doesn't excuse this package, it just
means that many other packages have the same bug.
craig
ps: to make matters even worse, even after installing it, the package doesn't
provide any information about itself in /usr/share/doc/libnvidia-allocator1.
Neither does any other nvidia-related package. No useful information to be
found, even after running:
find /usr/share/doc/*nvidia*/ -type f -exec zgrep -i 'allocator' {} +
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Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Source-Version: 535.113.01-1
Done: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nvidia-graphics-drivers, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated nvidia-graphics-drivers
package)
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:36:37 +0100
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Architecture: source
Version: 535.113.01-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
Closes: 1013462
Changes:
nvidia-graphics-drivers (535.113.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream long term support branch release 535.113.01 (2023-09-21).
- Fixed a bug that intermittently caused the display to freeze when
resuming from suspend on some Ada GPUs.
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[ Andreas Beckmann ]
* Refresh patches.
* Update package descriptions. (Closes: #1013462)
* Upload to unstable.
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