nvidia-experimental package with expedited SRU process?

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:39:31PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Bryce Harrington [2012-08-31 10:49 -0700]:
> > How I'm thinking it'd work in practice is, we would package and upload
> > the driver to -proposed and file a minimal SRU bug report (basically
> > just the Impact section; we're unlikely to know details).  We'd then
> > have the game vendor verify the driver from -proposed works with their
> > game.  The SRU admin would then be able to wave it through at that
> > point.
> 
> This seems entirely appropriate to me, +1.
> 
> I guess this selection should also persist across dist-upgrades, for
> people opting in to "always stay on the bleeding edge"?

Well, my vision here is not for supporting users wanting to be on the
bleeding edge, so much as providing required driver support for
particular commercial games.

The use case would be that a user purchases a game that needs a beta
driver; the beta driver gets installed and they can play their game.
Later they upgrade to a new ubuntu that includes the latest released
-nvidia driver; that version is sufficient for playing the game they
bought.  So it isn't important to keep them on the beta driver at that
point; we could return them to stock without issue.  If the vendor
provides an update to the game in the new version of ubuntu that
requires a newer beta driver, then it can be pulled in at that point.

Maybe the right question for this case is, is it feasible to move them
from the -beta driver back to stock on upgrade?

Bryce