nvidia-experimental package with expedited SRU process?

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:23:03AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Bryce,
> 
> Bryce Harrington [2012-09-10 22:31 -0700]:
> > In practice the legacy drivers are not updated except to add new X
> > server ABI support
> > [...]
> 
> > But nvidia-current-updates will start at that version number at
> > release and change over time (e.g. 304.xx in precise).  So you could
> > think of 'updates' as its own series, separate from -current.
> 
> Ah, then I misunderstood the purpose of the -173/-96 versions, I
> thought they got new versions with new features in the past as well.

As I understand NVIDIA's numbering system, new features would cause an
increment to those numbers.  So, (at least in practice as we've seen
historically) the -173/-96 versions will never get changes that would
make us need a new -nnn-updates for them.

> > > TBH I'd just keep them as they are.
> > 
> > Yeah maybe so; sounds like something we can hash through at some future
> > UDS.
> 
> So how about not changing 96 and 173 any more, but keeping the newer
> simplified schema for future versions?

That sounds good.  In fact -304 is going to become a new legacy
version, -96 is now EOL'd, and -173 will be phasing out in a little over
a year[1].

Bryce

1: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142