OK, would it be possible to push tar 1.29 to backports ? 2016-06-15 19:29 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 19:22 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote: > > OK thanks a lot. You cannot do anything even in the experimental repo ? > > No, in fact some of the uploads to be approved are to experimental. > Every time there is a new binary package, the FTP masters have to > manually review and approve before it's uploaded. > > > For the severity I'm OK with important, however in the coming months it > > will be more and more critical. > > I understand, but the only thing that a critical severity would achieve > is having the drivers which are working fine on users not on 1070/1080 > removed from the distribution, and that's not fair to them. As you can > see on the subversion repository, newer releases are ready withing a day > or two max after Nvidia publishes them, but we can't control the NEW > queue, so there is nothing else we can do as maintainers. > > Please do try to build 367 locally and give feedback. > > > 2016-06-15 19:20 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>: > > > > > Control: severity -1 important > > > > > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 18:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote: > > > > Package: nvidia-driver > > > > Version: 352.79-1~bpo8+1 > > > > Severity: critical > > > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > GPUs GeForce 10xx are out now for several weeks, and the first stable > > > Linux > > > > driver series which support them is 367.27 available from there : > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/104284/en-us > > > > > > > > Note this is a LTS branch for the drivers. > > > > > > > > Users of this hardware will be unable to reach any usable X session, > nor > > > > using > > > > any graphical mode. The bug is critical as this hardware will become > more > > > > and > > > > more widespread over time. > > > > > > Sorry but this bug is not critical nor grave, as it clearly only affect > > > a given specific configuration, and not all (and not even the majority) > > > of the users of the package. So it would be a grave disservice for the > > > vast majority of users to remove the package from the archive and the > > > distribution, for whom the driver works just fine, only because it's > too > > > old to work with some new hardware. Hence the downgrading. > > > > > > > So could you please : > > > > 1/ at least upload this driver version on experimental repo so that > it is > > > > installable using jessie w/ backports, testing and sid ? > > > > 2/ integrate this driver for stretch release, which seems reasonable > > > since > > > > the > > > > development window is still 6 months away ? > > > > > > > > Please notify me when you've packaged it to experimental so that I > could > > > > give > > > > it a test with my current hardware. Once I've upgraded to a GeForce > 10xx > > > > I'll > > > > perform the test again with various games. > > > > > > > > Many thanks and regards > > > > > > The newer releases are all packaged and ready, but the uploads are in > > > the new queue, in some cases since February. There is literally nothing > > > we as maintainers can do until they have been manually approved by the > > > FTP masters. > > > > > > Meanwhile, you can build the package from our SVN repositories > following > > > the instructions on the wiki: > > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN > > > > > > Feedback on the current state of the packages in SVN is greatly > > > appreciated. Feel free to open bugs if you find any issue with them. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Luca Boccassi > > > > > >
