[Bug 2126679] Re: FTBFS due to removal of nvidiadetection from ubuntu-drivers-common

[Mitchell Augustin]

I talked to Kuba. He said he has not heard of the "nvidia-glx" packages
in over 1.5 years of maintaining the Nvidia drivers, and that his team
tries to ensure that all of the driver transitions are taken care of
with transitional packages at EOL.

Dave also confirmed that none of the listed nvidia-glx packages are even
in Trusty (which is the earliest release in any kind of support)
according to rmadison.

With all this said, this usage of NvidiaDetector should be dead code,
and I believe it should be safe to remove from ubuntu-release-upgrader.

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Title:
  FTBFS due to removal of nvidiadetection from ubuntu-drivers-common

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Currently, ubuntu-release-upgrader is FTBFS because part of d/rules
  attempts to generate a tarball for dist-upgrader. This breaks when it
  attempts to archive a broken symlink ("NvidiaDetector") which points
  to a directory from the ubuntu-drivers-common package
  ("/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector") fomr which it was
  removed in version 1:0.10.3 [1]. Build failure log from u-r-u is at
  [2].

  [1]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-
  common/1:0.10.3

  [2]: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/820924013/buildlog_ubuntu-
  questing-amd64.ubuntu-release-upgrader_1%3A25.10.6_BUILDING.txt.gz

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