nvidia/fglrx expedited SRUs
Bryce Harrington
bryce at canonical.com
Wed Sep 5 00:27:15 UTC 2012
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:14:16AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > If we move people from the -experimental beta driver back to stock on
> > upgrade (which I think we might want to do), maybe it would be worth
> > considering moving people from -updates back to stock on upgrade as
> > well? That would resolve this use case, and enable us to do the quicker
> > release to -updates?
>
> That works for me as well. But I'm not sure whether it's semantically
> the right thing: I do agree for the -experimental use case after your
> latest reply, but I'm not sure whether the selection of the -updates
> driver should be regarded a permanent choice?
>
> But either way, I'm fine with either "A and move to standard driver on
> dist-upgrade" or "only B and always keep -updates".
Okay, I do agree those seem to be the two most sensible choices. My
preference would be for A, but really it should be whichever option best
suits user needs. We'll mull over the use cases and see if we can find
a good user-oriented argument favoring one option over the other.
Thanks,
Bryce
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