Daniel, fair point.

I do agree the process matters here, especially because this was not
just an obscure packaging edge case. The transition created an apparent
upgrade path from 470 to 535 even though 535 cannot support the hardware
most likely still using 470.

So yes, there are two separate issues:

1. the immediate technical regression for Kepler users;
2. the process failure that allowed an incompatible migration path to be 
proposed, verified, and then treated as acceptable.

My main concern is still keeping the report actionable, because once the
thread becomes mostly about blame, it gets easier for maintainers to
ignore. But I agree the process question should not be dismissed either.

At minimum, this needs a post-mortem or packaging-policy lesson:
transitional packages should not point legacy hardware users toward a
driver branch that the kernel/NVIDIA stack itself says will ignore their
GPU.

That matters not only for 470 now, but for future legacy transitions as
well.

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