Bug#922974: unblock: nvidia-graphics-drivers/410.93-2

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Andreas Beckmann, le mer. 27 févr. 2019 16:09:15 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:12:17 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> wrote:
> > nvidia-graphics-drivers seems to need a force-hint since it drops the
> > driver parts for i386 and armhf (and the libraries for armhf as well).
> > This makes the arch:all meta-package hashcat-nvidia uninstallable on
> > i386 (since nvidia-smi is gone).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to see this sorted out before I upload a new upstream release
> to unstable. Or are there more blockers for the migration that I'm
> currently not aware of? (Cruft packages should not be an issue.)
> 
> There is also #922976 which suggests hashcat to restrict to amd64 and/or
> add alternative dependencies to the respective packages from the 390xx
> legacy driver.

For information, the hashcat-nvidia which has the issue is just
a leaf meta-package with popcon 30, which is just a convenience
package for installing both hashcat and nvidia-opencl-icd which
provides acceleration (hashcat can work without it). The nvidia-smi
dependency is merely for getting the number of GPUs for inclusion in the
tab-completion help.

I don't think anybody still with an i386 system is using this
meta-package, so making it uninstallable on i386 shouldn't hurt anybody
(and we can easily fix that during the freeze).

Samuel