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Bug#578026: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: should not migrate to testing before linux-2.6



On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:40:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> This package needs the nouveau.ko kernel module which is not available
> in Squeeze kernels.  It must not migrate to testing until a suitable
> linux-2.6 (and preferably linux-latest-2.6) version is in place.
> 
One argument here is that this only matters when
1) the kernel autoloads nouveau.ko on boot, which it doesn't yet
2) the X server selects nouveau_drv.so by default for nvidia hw, which
it doesn't either

If nouveau gets to testing first, then we can add it as a dependency of
xserver-xorg-video-all, and then later do the above autoloading dance
without worrying too much that the nouveau X driver might not be
installed.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Julien

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