Bug#891577: stretch-pu: package nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx/304.137-5~deb9u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 20:49 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I'd like to update nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx in stretch to
> the (literally) last upstream version. It does not have any CVEs
> associated with it (unlike nvidia-graphics-drivers and -legacy-
> 340xx),
> but it is now EoL-ed upstream (there won't be any further updates
> coming from NVIDIA) and I'd like to have that stated by the package.
> Also I'd like to get the packaging bugfixes (tls, alternatives, ...)
> and improvements that are now coming with 340xx and 384.111 for the
> 304xx driver, too, to have the three driver series in sync.
> 
> The 304xx driver will disappear from testing not later than Xorg
> bumps its ABI again ... and thereafter will be only usable on (old-
> )stable.

+  * Use debian/substvars for substitutions by dpkg-genchanges (dpkg
1.19)
+    (375.82-7).

What's the effect of not having support for that? (as 1.19 is newer
than stretch's dpkg.)

Regards,

Adam