OpenCL in Debian

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-06-27 13:08, Vincent Hindriksen wrote:
> Hi Russ and Andreas,
> 
> At http://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-opencl-icd and I've found
> OpenCL-related  packages, but I have not found the ones by AMD, Intel
> and IBM (commonruntime). What do you think can be done best to get these
> packages into Debian? If I package them in a Launchpad-PPA, then you can
> easily put them in Debian?

If you are missing something in Debian, first look in the WNPP bug list
(work needed and prospective packages), for details see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

In your case a bug was already filed for AMD:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629518

Current blocker is the license which does not seem to allow
redistribution. If you can help clarifying the license issue, that would
be great!
Packaging scripts are already there, see the above bug report.

For the other vendors, could you post some URLs? Or even better open
some RFP bugs (see the WNPP page for details) and add the pseudoheader
    X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-nvidia-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
so that we are aware of it. I can probably handle the packaging.

Andreas