I wrote an explanation of the current state of this in LP: #1808874 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682291
Title: obsolete drivers list may be out of date Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: ubuntu-drivers-common provides a file named obsolete which is presumably a list of obsolete nvidia drivers. It doesn't seem to have been updated recently: $ ls -lh /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/obsolete -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162 Jun 24 2011 /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/obsolete [ 3:30PM 10459 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/dist-upgrader ] $ cat /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/obsolete nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-new nvidia-glx-legacy nvidia-glx-envy nvidia-glx-new-envy nvidia-glx-legacy-envy nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-glx-71 nvidia-glx-190 nvidia-glx-195 Does it in fact need updating? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1682291/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
