RM: EOL mantic nvidia-graphics-drivers - Remove from the archive, unmaintained upstream drivers
Bug #2035189 reported by
Timo Aaltonen
This bug affects 2 people
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bumblebee (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This legacy driver had the last update on 2022.11.22, and is EOL upstream. We should remove it from the archive before the next LTS, maybe even before Mantic is released.
We're planning on migrating the kernel from fbdev drivers to using simpledrm, but this old driver doesn't support the fbdev emulation layer, meaning that VT's would remain blank when the driver is used.
Similarly 418-server and 450-server are also EOL and unsupported.
Also we shomehow have remains of 440-server published in the archive, with many superseeded (hostile takeover) of binary packages by 450-server.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
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I thought 390 is so obsolete, that everyone has migrated to newer ones if their card supports it.
Thus simply removing it, is best.
Upon upgrade it will be offered to be removed from disk as an obsolete package.
Eventually 6.5+ based jammy kernels will not have it in lrm either.
And we will only keep it against older kernels in bionic..jammy (ga only), if we can and stable updates don't conflict.