On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > We already have this in Ubuntu itself: We have several versions of > nvidia-*, with one of them being the "recommended" one by > ubuntu-drivers-common.
From looking at trusty-updates all of these are either for older cards, or are behind the upstream drivers, I do not see packages for their the short-lived (349.16) packages or the long-lived (352.30) series. Am I looking in the right place? > Big NACK, for the reason Stéphane pointed out. I see nothing that > would stop these packages getting into stable-updates properly, > especially if they are new upstream versions that don't change > existing systems (unless you opt-in, of course). I'll let Alberto answer here, I think the biggest issue is the time it takes to get it into distro. > I. e. I do support the idea of supplying the latest graphics drivers > especially to LTSes, but within the Ubuntu archive, not via PPAs. > Of course PPAs are fine for pre-release testing, but enabling them as > a way to work around Ubuntu policies is a dangerous and slippery > slope. Any other ideas on how we can get people the bits they want? Micah mentioned -backports but I hadn't considered that as an option before. -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
