On Lu, 16 iul 12, 14:43:54, Dan Serban wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:31 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My bad, the guy that made that statement is not the guy at the top of the > page and missed that comment. The reality is that it seems that this > affects more than the singular nvidia driver, though that's simply google-fu > that may have gone sideways.
I couldn't say, didn't research this as all as my system doesn't seem to be affected. > > - wheezy is (still in) testing > > - the issue is related to the proprietary driver > > Really, the reasoning is IMHO wrong, it affects 3 levels of > distributions. Squeeze + backports, wheezy .. and sid. Which by its nature > will turn off potential Debian users. No matter who's fault it is. Hence > my rant. I've put up with it so far, but it seems like now (yesterday?) > would be a good time to get the issue resolved. > > Doesn't Wheezy going into feature freeze mean that no new versions of the > binary blob would see the light of day in wheezy? Exactly. > Or rather, maybe this bug should be tagged RC? > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308#25 I would try a gentle reminder. IMO a good argument for applying the workaround ASAP would be to get as much testing as possible before the release ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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