[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

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 dat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

Ah, I did make that change to the build process. ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:17.10.5) artful; urgency=medium [ Jeremy Bicha ] * Drop obsolete alternate dependencies: - gir1.2-vte-2.90 - gir1.2-webkit-3.0 * Drop obsolete XS-Testsuite field [ Brian Murray ] * do-release-upgrade: C

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

>From what I can tell DistUpgradeCache.py calls NvidiaDetection, provided by nvidiadetector.py from , and passes the ubuntu-drivers-obsolete.pkgs as an argument. It looks like the obsolete packages path argument is required by NvidiaDetector so I don't think we can yank it without modify ubuntu-dri

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

We should investigate ubuntu-release-upgrader to see if the code which utilizes the obsolete driver list can be removed from it. ** Tags removed: rls-aa-incoming ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray) ** Changed in: ubuntu-relea

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

Could you add some information about what leads you to believe that so I can make an informed decision about ripping the list and code which checks it out of ubuntu-release-upgrader? ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubunt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

After a second look, I think that hack was only needed for very old releases, upgrades should go smoothly without the entries in that file now. ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Deskto

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1682291] Re: obsolete drivers list may be out of date

Yes, the file hasn't been updated in a while. Thanks for reminding me. ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Des