[Debichem-devel] Regarding the MR for adding ROCm Support in blaspp package

[Michael Banck]

Hi Spaarsh,

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:53:53PM +0530, Spaarsh Thakkar wrote:
> I, with the help of Cordell Bloor [1], have made an MR [2] for the blaspp
> package [3] that enables ROCm support for the package.

Thanks for that!

> I have been awaiting a response from  debichem's maintainers but haven't
> heard back yet.
> 
> Could anyone please look into it? I'd be glad to get some feedback.

Sorry it took so long, but I reviewed it now and added my comments.
 
> There are also concerns about adding a significantly large package in the
> Depends which would call for creating and maintaining a separate package
> for users who wish to use blaspp with ROCm enabled. This has been discussed
> by Cordell under the MR here [4].

I have to say I agree with Cordell that adding a 2GB dependency to a 2MB
packages sounds untenable. However, I also mentioned that I think the
current libblaspp-dev package might not really help towards rocm support
at all, we'd need a shared library probably. I can add that, but it
probably won't make trixie anymore at this point.


Michael