khronos-opencl-man package

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Mon May 27 07:28:33 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta
<giuseppe.bilotta at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also like to take the opportunity to mention that there is a risk
> for potential conflicts between some of the page names for the OpenCL C
> built-in functions and their counterparts from the C std or math libraries
> (e.g., cbrt.3.gz). May I suggest changing the suffix of the OpenCL C
> built-ins to something differe, like .3clc in a similar way to how Perl
> modules use the .3pm suffix? This would guarantee the lack of conflicts, and
> it would also help better identify the host API documentation (that will
> have the standard .3 suffix) from the OpenCL C documentation.

Ooops ! I guess one of the tests in debian will detect the conflict
and report the exact error when the package enters main.

I'll use your convention, seems quite clear, thanks.

> By the way, if you need a hand with the package I'd be glad to help.

Package is team maintained, feel free to jump in any time you want,
esp. if you are supergood XSLT developer. Upstream maintains neat HTML
pages, but the man page output is currently generated using your
servitor solution, and some cross links are currently broken.

Thanks,



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