Hi fellow LTS developers As you can see below I had a question to Markus and he answered with very good information.
My question to you all is whether we should add the nvidia-graphics-drivers packages to the "packages-to-support" list or if we should document this in some other way? Based on the documentation I had at hand I did not draw the same conclusion as Markus did and I think maybe we should change the documentation so I could draw that conclusion. Or have I missed something regarding the documentation we have? Or is it so that we should in fact not support the nvidia-graphics-dirvers packages? Cheers // Ola On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 00:22, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Ola, > > Am Dienstag, dem 27.12.2022 um 23:48 +0100 schrieb Ola Lundqvist: > > Hi Markus > > > > When triaging nvidia-graphics-drivers CVEs I realized that you had added > > nvidia-graphics-drivers to dla-needed.txt. My understanding is that > packages > > in non-free are not supported unless explicitly mentioned in packages-to- > > support file. > > > > The nvidia-graphics-drivers package(s) is not in packages-to-support. > > > > So therefore I'm asking whether adding the package was a mistake or if I > have > > missed something? > > > I believe nvidia drivers are still supported in LTS because at least some > nvidia packages are listed in packages-to-support like nvidia-modprobe or > nvidia-settings. In addition I had uploaded a new nvidia-graphics-drivers > package back in January 2022 [1] and I think nothing has changed back > then. In > general we even support non-free packages in LTS if the package is quite > important like a driver. Nvidia drivers fits perfectly here. I'm more > reluctant > with leaf packages like otrs2 (because of the non-free Javascript) but > Nvidia > drivers are still important for many users these days. In short you don't > have > to worry about Nvidia drivers in LTS because this is something we try to > support. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00013.html > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- | o...@inguza.com o...@debian.org | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | ---------------------------------------------------------------
