Re: Re: Questions about the lts repository
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 20:15:20 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
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> I can't remember that we made a security upload for contrib or non-free
> since I'm part of the security team. There's nothing blocking this,
> though! If people want to update e.g. the proprietary Nvidia drivers in
> squeeze-lts (or the non-free microcode packages for Intel or AMD), they
> can go ahead.
It might be interesting for microcode updates (and the occasional security
update they get), but providing updates for nvidia drivers would be more
complicated - the drivers tend to evolve and sometimes regressions occur
with no choice other than trying a new, hopefully "stable", version or a
full rollback.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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