[Pkg-opencl-devel] status of opencl clhpp / cl2hpp in Debian

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On 09/09/16 00:49, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Le 08/09/2016 à 23:36, Vincent Danjean a écrit :
>> Le 08/09/2016 à 11:27, Ghislain Vaillant a écrit :
>> [..]
>>> Finally, it looks like upstream has moved development activity to
>>> GitHub and split the OpenCL C and C++ headers to different
>>> repositories, which is detailed in another bug report [3].
>>>
>>> Moving forward, I am wondering what is the best course of action and I
>>> am willing to help to make it happen. My gut feeling tells me that we
>>> would need a new source package (khronos-opencl-clhpp) and one (opencl
>>> clhpp-headers) or perhaps two (opencl-clhpp-header, opencl-cl2hpp
>>> header) binary packages built from it, and a well planned transition.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>>   I agree. I started to package khronos-opencl-clhpp with only one
>> binary package (it is small even if the two versions are included)
>> and I'm working to update the khronos-opencl package with the latest
>> version.

That was quick. Thanks for the prompt action.

>>   That said, you are very welcome if you want to help us to maintain
>> these packages.

Not sure what else I can contribute now that you have done the work :-)

>>   I will send another email this evening when I will stop my
>> work on these package.
>
> So, all is uploaded but mostly sitting in the NEW queue.
> There is the khronos-opencl-clhpp with two binary packages:
> * opencl-clhpp-headers: the C++ headers
> * opencl-clhpp-headers-doc: the doxygen documentation
> There is also the khronos-opencl-headers with also two binary packages:
> * opencl-headers that is now a metapackage depending on
>   opencl-clhpp-headers and opencl-c-headers (so the transition should
>   be smooth for ant reverse dependency)
> * opencl-c-headers: the C headers (updated)

Sounds sensible. The transition should be smooth thanks to the
meta-package.

>   All is pushed into git in alioth and the binary packages can be
> found in my private repo if some want to try.
>
>   Do not hesitate to report bugs if there is any problem.
>
>   Regards,
>     Vincent
>
> PS: I just think I forgot to close khronos-opencl-headers bugs.
> Its too late for me to do it now. If someone want to do it, it will
> be welcome.

I'll take care of it, since most of them are mine.

Cheers,
Ghis