Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx I know this is a new package (actually a fork of an older version of nvidia-settings) and therefore would not qualify for adding it to wheezy during freeze ... but * nvidia-settings has been compatible with nvidia-graphics-drivers and nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-* up to version 295.xx, this has changed in 302.xx (but since it always had worked, nobody tested the new nvidia-settings on nvidia-grapichs-drivers-legacy-173xx) * we only became aware of this problem when the 302.17 nvidia driver+settings+xconfig migrated to testing (after freeze): #681182 * we started testing nvidia-settings + legacy 173xx driver immediately, found it non-operational and packaged nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx * the nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx has entered sid before the first user noticed the problem, which happened today in #685049 The raw diffstat between nvidia-settings 295.49 and 304.37 is 148 files changed, 6602 insertions(+), 16331 deletions(-) which makes it problematic to re-add legacy support: 302.xx (-driver and -settings) changes many things related to Xrandr and probably the pre-xrandr code paths no longer exist in -settings. nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx is the same version as shipped by nvidia together with the 173xx legacy driver - it may have less features than 295.xx, but these are not needed for 173xx legacy drivers anyway. nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx is a leaf package in contrib, there are no other packages affected by adding this package (only nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx needs to update its Suggests from nvidia-settings to -legacy-173xx) And nvidia-settings 304.37-1 (in sid) has been updated to conflict with pre-302 drivers and legacy drivers, so once this gets into wheezy users wont be able to use the not working combination any longer, but they will need a working alternative. unblock nvidia-settings-legacy-173xx/173.14.35-1 Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
