[Debian-pan-maintainers] Push ROCm and Pocl autopkgtest for pkg Sasmodels

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Clément

This sounds great - thank you for your work.

I have lots of questions about it :)

As a first step, could you put this in as a merge request on salsa so 
that we can all look at it and understand what you have achieved?

I know almost nothing about rocm - is there a good short intro that I 
can read to learn?

Do we need to update the package dependencies to make this work 
effectively for users?

Is there a way to upstream some of this work so that sasmodels upstream 
is testing against different stacks on a routine basis?

Do we know how flaky this might turn out to be? Other GPU-using tests 
have proven to be very flaky and end up getting the packages in an 
almost permanent will-soon-be-auto-removed state which is annoying for 
everyone involved.

I think Drew's question about GPU-requirements for the test suite was 
more: what happens when the rocm-using test gets run on a machine 
without a suitable GPU (or is there a way to prevent that using a 
suitable restriction?)

(And if you happen to be at DebConf then let's talk more there!)

Thanks
Stuart


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