On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:00:11AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 07/05/2023 10:20, Tobias Frost wrote:
Hi,
(this thread is linked in dla-needed.txt and such) I'm not sure
about the status of the nvidia drivers in LTS, so I thought it
is better to ask if or not we support nvidia-drivers
Said that I've juse claimed them from dla-needed.txt and will work
on them, unless someone tells me not to do so ;-)
I'd say it falls in the same category as firmware-nonfree. If we can support
it with a reasonable effort then we shall do it, since there's no other
pocket for such updates (e.g. proposed-updates). But once the various
branches go EOL then we should just declare them EOL as well.
I agree!
After anaylzing nvidia-graphics-drivers yesterday, I'd suggest to EOL it: The
driver version (418) in buster has been EOLed by nvidia in 02/2022. I've
checked if it would make sense to update to 470 (EOL date
07/2024) but the 470 drivers introduces new libraries and also remove some
others, I think this is not worth the effort.
For nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx, buster has actually not the latest
390 version, so I think it makes sense to do an (final) update here.
(Though, I did not check yet if the new version has also some surprises ready)
After that, the package should be also EOLed (nvidia support ended 12/2022))