[Pkg-opencl-devel] ROCm RFP

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 14/12/2021 20.10, maxzor wrote:
> For your information, I just opened this RFP : 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001712 .
> 
> If anybody is already on the job that's great,

Not that I'd know.

> if not I might gather the  > energy to withstand the maintainer trial :)

I might spend some time reviewing and sponsoring ...

Would it be useful to place these packages under the umbrella of
   Maintainer: Debian OpenCL Maintainers 
<pkg-opencl-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
There is more in ROCm than just OpenCL, but I don't know a better 
fitting team ...

Given that there are third-party Debian packages out in the wild, we 
should ensure that upgrades from third-party packages to official Debian 
packages (and maybe vice versa) work smoothly. Which means packaging 
updates probably need to be propagated back to the third-party 
packaging. (An *no* use of epochs to be newer than the third-party 
packages!)

(I had used the third-party ROCm packages on a Debian system in the 
past, and IIRC it worked surprisingly well after I figured out that we 
already had a recent enough kernel to not need the out-of-tree kernel 
module bits.)


Andreas