Dear all,
I am the maintainer of ArrayFire, a library which offers different
implementations of the same API as computational backends. So far, I
have packaged the CPU and OpenCL ones to keep the package in main, but a
CUDA backend also exists.
Upstream kindly asked whether the CUDA backend could be packaged as
well, and I wanted to confirm with you guys what my options are. I
thought about providing an additional source package with the same
upstream sources, but which would be responsible for building the CUDA
backend only. I believe this source package (arrayfire-cuda) would have
to be in contrib since it is open-source licensed but build-depends on
non-free components (CUDA).
Is this the right way to go? Are there any tips to handle the
synchronization between the arrayfire and arrayfire-cuda packages? Any
other examples of a set-up like this in the archive?
Thanks for your advice,
Ghis
