[PATCH 0/10 G/H][SRU][generic/aws/azure/gcp/oracle][L-R-M] Update the NVIDIA 455 driver

[Stefan Bader]

On 04.11.20 16:36, Alberto Milone wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2020 15:37, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> On 03.11.20 18:31, Alberto Milone wrote:
>>> Update the NVIDIA 455 driver and drop the 435 series.
>>>
>>> Also, provide a new virtual package, so that packagers
>>> can specify a dependency on signed modules (as opposed to
>>> the DKMS packages).
>>>
>>> Each couple of patches covers one flavour: generic, aws, azure,
>>> gcp, oracle.
>>>
>>> This requires updating the debian/dkms-versions to match what is
>>> in -proposed.
>>>
>>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1902093
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alberto Milone <alberto.milone at canonical.com>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.25.1
>>>
>> More or less agree but the transitional file should be better named
>> migrate-nvidia-435. Reason is that if named transitionals it will be handled
>> incorrectly if your variant does not contain --. Also I would not put
>> dkms-versions into the lrm patch. This is matched anyway to what the kernel tree
>> contains when we crank.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
> 
> Maybe we should revisit the way we handle transitionals, so that it is
> consistent across all the variants.
> 
I could say as well that maybe we should just name those files differently. If
you check previous releases that is mostly done that way...