On 2011-04-24 00:14 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> 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.  

They were.  Bug #383465¹ had been ignored for three releases already
which is really too long.

> (Obfuscated code may have driven the X.org developers away from the nv driver 
> to the Nouveau driver, though.)

This is probably not the case since nv is still the default driver
upstream, although every major Linux distribution has switched to
nouveau, even Slackware.  I don't expect this to change unless nouveau
sees a real release which, with the current attitude of the nouveau
developers, is unlikely to ever happen.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383465


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