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Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?



El 24/06/25 a las 22:53, Santiago Ruano Rincón escribió:
> 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?

Sorry for the delay.  There is finally interest on having the
supported-by-upstream version available on old Debian releases.
Andreas, would it be possible for you to provide those source+binary
packages for bullseye-security?

Tobi and Ariel on the same thread have mentioned it would be possible
for them to test them?

Thank you all.

Have a nice week-end,

 -- Santiago

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