In <1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still maintained by the X.org developers for a while. However, the Nouveau driver reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop supporting the nv driver. Debian testing exists to produce the next stable. Debian tries to avoid including unmaintained software in a stable release. Unless the nv driver gets a maintainer, which seems unlikely, it would need to be dropped from testing before the next stable release. It was dropped as early as possible to identify issues and have the most time available to remedy them, either by recommending a good migration path or providing the missing functionality. There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing. (Obfuscated code may have driven the X.org developers away from the nv driver to the Nouveau driver, though.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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