On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:16:48 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please approve the following changes for package > nvidia-graphics-drivers: > > As discussed in #688861 (freeze exception for libxvmc) yesterday, there > is another possibility to address the missing multiarchification of > libxvmc1: if we split the libgl1-nvidia-glx package and move one library > to a new libxvmcnvidia1 library we can move the dependency on > libxvmc1 to that new package and libgl1-nvidia-glx will have its > dependencies satisfied for installing libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 along with > libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64. > > A preliminary debdiff is attached, I probably need to tighten the > dependencies on the new package a bit ... > OK.
> Since we are currently planning a trip through NEW, there are a few more > thing I'd like to ask about: > > * Adding a new "nvidia-cuda-proxy" binary package. There are some binaries > added by NVIDIA added in the 304 series that don't fit into any existing > package (and therefore are not packaged, yet). I'd like to add a new > leaf package that ships these new binaries, so that we don't ship less > than provided in the upstream blob - even though there are no users for > this new feature today, it might adopt users over time. And it's > intended to work with the 304 driver we currently have in wheezy. > > * turning the virtual packages > nvidia-vdpau-driver-i386 > libcuda1-i386 (*) > libnvidia-compiler-i386 > nvidia-opencl-icd-i386 (*) > nvidia-libopencl1-i386 > libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 (*) (***) > into real packages with > Architecture: i386 > Multi-Arch: foreign > (or at least the ones marked with (*) or even onty the (***) one) to > provide a better migration path for the old -ia32 packages. > This would be similar to ia32-libs, except that the > *-ia32:amd64 packages will only recommend the new*-i386:i386 packages. > Too late for these IMO. Cheers, Julien
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