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Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?



El 24/06/25 a las 23:15, Andreas Beckmann escribió:
> On 6/24/25 19:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > I plan to contact directly the sponsor to study the impact of
> > (officially) stopping supporting nvidia-graphics-driver.  But before
> > that, it would be helpful to know if a full version backport is
> > technically possible or not.  Help with that will be very appreciated.
> > Any volunteers?
> 
> A backport of 535.247.01-1~deb12u1 to bullseye should be rather trivial.

Thanks for the info, this is useful.

> Compared to 470.xx the ppc64el architecture will dropped since upstream no
> longer provides updated ppc64el binaries (this has also been done in
> bookworm).

OK, that shouldn't be an issue.

> It is not a 0-change backport due to Openssl 1.1 vs. OpenSSL 3 (the
> neccessary changes are already in 535.183.01-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1).
> While writing this email a bullseye test rebuild of an updated
> bullseye-backports branch completed successfully. I can provide builds for
> LTS (source and/or binary, all architectures), but not test them.

That would be helpful. Before going on, and to avoid that you spend your
time for nothing, I will contact the impacted user, and will come back
to you. Does that make sense to you?

Thanks!

-- 
Santiago Ruano Rincón ◈  Freexian SARL
https://www.freexian.com

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