As explained at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716963 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742377
I strongly object PMASK. There is still hardware where it is useful (e.g. mine GeForce 7300 GT), it builds fine, it works fine with nvidia-drivers-304.125 (the latest for my card), there are no open security bugs. I see of no reason why to remove this package while it still works fine.
Have you think in going ahead on directly maintaining it on Gentoo? Currently most people looking to maintainer-needed won't be able to even run it and, since it's no longer provided in most distributions, if a new bug appears in the future it's likely to be ignored (or even cause to finally treeclean the package after a time of not knowing how to solve that) :/ Thanks a lot
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #2) > Have you think in going ahead on directly maintaining it on Gentoo? Yep, just added myself to maintainers. OK to remove package mask? > Currently most people looking to maintainer-needed won't be able to even run > it and, since it's no longer provided in most distributions, if a new bug > appears in the future it's likely to be ignored (or even cause to finally > treeclean the package after a time of not knowing how to solve that) :/ Please understand that I will not add support for newer cards. My goal is to keep package supported for a hardware where it works now, of course, while I have that hardware operational. I tested nvclock on two configurations: 1) Geforce 7300GT, nvidia-drivers-304.125: works fine, can change cpu and memory frequencies. 2) Geforce 8600GT, nvidia-drivers-340.76: works (can retrieve card info), but can't change frequencies. nvclock works as a root, but segfaults with user privs (though it is not supposed to be run as user in the first place).
Of course, go ahead and drop the hardmask. And thanks a lot for taking care :) Best regards
Done.
