Adding a hook to ubuntu-drivers GUI for a driver PPA

[Jorge O. Castro]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> We already have this in Ubuntu itself: We have several versions of
> nvidia-*, with one of them being the "recommended" one by
> ubuntu-drivers-common.

>From looking at trusty-updates all of these are either for older
cards, or are behind the upstream drivers, I do not see packages for
their the short-lived (349.16) packages or the long-lived (352.30)
series. Am I looking in the right place?

> Big NACK, for the reason Stéphane pointed out. I see nothing that
> would stop these packages getting into stable-updates properly,
> especially if they are new upstream versions that don't change
> existing systems (unless you opt-in, of course).

I'll let Alberto answer here, I think the biggest issue is the time it
takes to get it into distro.

> I. e. I do support the idea of supplying the latest graphics drivers
> especially to LTSes, but within the Ubuntu archive, not via PPAs.
> Of course PPAs are fine for pre-release testing, but enabling them as
> a way to work around Ubuntu policies is a dangerous and slippery
> slope.

Any other ideas on how we can get people the bits they want? Micah
mentioned -backports but I hadn't considered that as an option before.