[Pkg-opencl-devel] Bug#860805: Could we set bug #860805 against beignet-opencl-icd to stretch-is-blocker?

[Niels Thykier]

Andreas Tille:
> Hi release team,
> 
> this morning 16 "marked for autoremoval from testing" mails hit my
> mailbox for partly quite important Debian Med packages.  I'm sure other
> packages will be affected as well so this package is somehow cruxial.
> 
> I wonder whether you might consider this bug stretch-is-blocker to make
> sure we will not loose a larger set of packages.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.
> 

Hi Andreas,

Sorry to hear that you are affected by an auto-removal.

With that and the removal date being in June, we should plenty of time
to see where this bug is going and possibly device a fix for it.   There
is some recent progress on the upstream bug with a patch, which might
bring us closer to a fix  (@Rebecca: Kudos for the timely response to
the bug when it was filed).
  Also, please keep in mind that regular updates to the bug will reset
the timer.  Even a simple """I tried this patch from upstream, it didn't
work because of X.  Notify upstream of the issue""" will reset the
automatic timer.

@Andreas: Assuming worst case, what are the options for dropping beignet
support in your packages?  (I appreciate that they are probably not the
best, but ...)

Thanks,
~Niels