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Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?



Hello Andreas,

El 18/08/25 a las 11:16, Adrian Bunk escribió:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 02:51:48PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > - Which distribution should I put in the changelog? (bullseye-security)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > - Where to upload it? (dput ftp-master)
> 
> dput security-master
> 
> > You mentioned source+binary uploads. For which architectures?
> > The non-free packages are whitelisted for autobuilding in the buildd
> > network.
> >...
> 
> Source-only upload should work.

I realize my "provide those source+binary packages" comment was not
clear, please let me try to fix that.  As Adrian mentioned, the
source-only upload should work, just keep in mind that you need to
include the orig.tar.* (-sa) since security-master doesn't know about
it.  With "providing the binary", I understood you proposed to place the
bullseye packages (builds) somewhere, so other people could test them,
as Tobi and Ariel have stepped up for.  Does that match your initial
idea?
I would assume that amd64 binaries would be OK. I am afraid I don't have
any NVidia HW myself.  It would be ideal to test the bullseye packages
before uploading them.

Thanks again,

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

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