The major question here has been how to handle binary non-free drivers that
haven't been updated yet for the 7.1 ABI change. Specifically, the nvidia
driver, which is presently packaged in non-free, hasn't been updated yet for
7.1; it's possible that this won't happen in time for the etch release, or
even that it won't happen at all if they jump straight to a 7.2 ABI. David
seemed unconcerned by the possibility of releasing etch without an nvidia
driver. That's a fair answer, I just wanted to make sure we weren't going
to leave people taken by surprise by such a change. We've also discussed
steps that can be taken to help nvidia users continue to use the 7.0 driver
with the 7.1 server if that becomes necessary, and David has been working up
a patch for an IgnoreABI xorg.conf option to supplement the -ignoreABI
commandline option, which leaves me comfortable with the worst-case scenario
here (i.e., we can ship nvidia 7.0 drivers and users of those drivers will
have to add a couple of options to their xorg.conf by hand).