Bug#755513: Bug #755513 : nvidia-opencl-dev: binary conflict with ocl-icd-libopencl1

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Vincent

On 30 July 2014 18:23, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr> wrote:
>   As this bug remains me this situation, I'm proposing that we move
> the libOpenCL.so symlink into the dev package. Intel told me long
> ago that they will fix their license so that we can redistribute
> their implementation. But nothing occurs to my knowledge.
>   Moreover, it would be easy to document what need to be fixed
> (ie add a libOpenCL.so symlink or install an OpenCL dev package) in
> order to execute binary compiled with the Intel OpenCL environment.
> We will gain a cleaner situation about OpenCL file layout with
> respect to the library packaging.
>
>   If you agree, we will have to go through all OpenCL packages to
> put correct conflicts/replaces where required.

What changes would be required to all OpenCL packages if you moved the
libOpenCL.so symlink into the dev package?

Surely if ocl-icd-libopencl1 ships libOpenCL.so then it should
conflict with all other opencl -dev packages (i.e. those that also
ship libOpenCL.so), and if it stops shipping libOpenCL.so then it is
just a matter of removing those conflicts?

Regards
Graham