Hi, We're considering the removal of xserver-xorg-video-nv (the "free" X driver for nvidia hardware) from sid and squeeze. Some reasons are: - the source is obfuscated [0] - nvidia stopped maintaining it [1] - nouveau seems to be mostly ready to replace it, although it has some pains, including an unstable ABI (the driver in squeeze won't work with a later kernel) We don't have nvidia hardware, so maybe our perception is flawed. If people think we should keep that driver, please explain why. If the reason is "nouveau doesn't work for me", we'll ignore your reply unless it comes with a bugs.freedesktop.org (or bugs.debian.org, if the bug is fixed in experimental but not in squeeze) bug number. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/383465 [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg-announce/2010-March/001286.html Cheers, Julien Cristau, Cyril Brulebois, Brice Goglin
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