Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?
Hi Andreas,
Am Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 02:51:48PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
> On 8/8/25 19:13, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > 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?
>
> So we are talking about nvidia-graphics-drivers (535.247.01-1~deb11u1)
> (Well, I should probably get 535.261.03 into bookworm-pu first and backport
> that version instead.)
>
> As I have no experience with doing LTS uploads, yet, ...
> - Which versioning scheme should I use? (<bookworm_version>~deb11u1)
> - Which distribution should I put in the changelog? (bullseye-security)
> - Where to upload it? (dput ftp-master)
> You mentioned source+binary uploads. For which architectures?
> The non-free packages are whitelisted for autobuilding in the buildd
> network.
> src:nvidia-graphics-drivers 470.256.02-2 in bullseye currently has binaries
> for
> - amd64
> - i386 (only libraries, no kernel module)
> - arm64
> - armhf (only nvidia-egl-common, only needed by nvidia-legacy-390xx-egl-icd
> from src:nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx)
Currently travelling, so only a short offer to help instead of elaborating:
If you want I can do all the paperwork for you and also do the upload for you.
> There is no src:nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules in bullseye and there is no
> need to introduce one.
>
> Andreas
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tobi
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