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Le 26/06/2012 18:59, Neil McGovern a écrit : > Hi, > > Anything in the NEW queue will not count towards the unblock. If it's > necessary for an rc fix, explain that to us, otherwise it's probably not > going to make it. ocl-icd is a very young package, both upstream and in Debian (first upstream release and first upload to Debian in June). ocl-icd provides a free alternative to non-free OpenCL ICD Loader provided by AMD/NVidia/Intel/... When someone programs in OpenCL, it usually needs an OpenCL ICD Loader and one or more ICD (ie OpenCL implementations). For information, an ICD Loader is a small shared library acting as a call dispatcher to real OpenCL implementations (called ICD) ocl-icd is small and the core code should not change a lot until OpenCL 1.3 or more appears. The core code of the version already in testing is very similar to the one waiting in NEW. The version waiting in NEW propose the following improvements: - - dependencies (Depends/Provides/...) better suited to allow smooth replacement of non-free ICD Loader by this one - - the ICD loader can look for its config files elsewhere than in the fixed default place (/etc/OpenCL/vendors) by setting an envvar (very useful in "make check" target of ICD that want to test themselves without root access to write in /etc/OpenCL/vendors) - - a pkg-config file in ocl-icd-dev (package useful to build ICD, not OpenCL programs) - - a new package (ocl-icd-opencl-dev) that can be used as build-dependency when compiling OpenCL programs. This package also includes a pkg-config file. ocl-icd did not have any reverse dependencies in wheezy and it wont have any (in wheezy) because: - - no free ICD that would use it is packaged (I'm looking at pocl but it is too young to be really used and packaged) - - no OpenCL programs depends on it in main as they would need an ICD to work, and all ICD are non-free for now (so the OpenCL program should go to contrib, not main) So, users of ocl-icd in wheezy will be mainly upstream developers of free ICD (pocl, socl, ...) and the users that try to compile these ICD. It seems to me important to offer them a good packaging of this software (with pkg-config files, ...) We would like that people working on OpenCL have the possibility to use as much as possible free software. Considering the young of the package (upstream and in Debian), the fact that this is a free replacement of non-free packages, the fact that we are at the beginning of the freeze, the fact that there is no reverse dependencies, I would like to ask you for a freeze exception of ocl-icd 1.3-2. Having ocl-icd 1.3-2 in wheezy would improve the quality of wheezy without any risk of problems for the distribution. Regards, Vincent PS: during the previous weekend, at the Debian sprint at Grenoble (France), I wrote a document that try to summarize the situation of OpenCL in Debian. I plan to post it to d-d very soon for comments and feedback, but you can look at it if you need explanations about OpenCL in Debian: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ocl-icd.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian;hb=master - -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIVAwUBT+oxadT1zgD6DpudAQjIDA/+KbJUIs/KZ7Y2KDUqtu6jBAo6ieRnEUwq DKnl6JP1DXNdDWWKfk68rms6W7IAMXKfXWPhGEV4yY8ofZU474rwr8yfXYNKdL2I a984MmhbUpA+uYDDf+tzbjyXcdaC59pkFBaV6mGVSpZFUi2n0aQTL1g2aS/6KPoY MJ1qaqrDxGsY+xm8lN1HFpymsZNbPD6I2zkkXViy5X0j9XB8wp+PeKzQSr/kHv7i FFymYFnThV+RkbB9prXxZ23YoAXdK3HuSh2KRm2fukqUYl/5LYvsx7CKPhOdrrTZ HU9A5ITTJnMTY81mlkEvyAHDNzXRxlar0VyTHGJvB3O4QJrvcDzU8AB/qvDA9PUg szEGmXYE1RwDNpcxQI6Ma11ey+53QCg/nGZPZM2G4OTMMIRoeJ+7uB1F89pJzOz9 PstKLyqtuhBbyw3TDWKfEYu9rSce4+wEVpvuDaq9Ai/u6xF7Zh5jIPVcNvinnNWa zXbxKHjJY6WKJXIL4FsqmXNJxh8wmSNzJDVGm/PJ+0ge0/ZEjMcIRkpynEsyyVS+ dm7T5sNu+nWLqTbLNlgpKIDb4C/RprdAnnZRuZBRmQTeyFXDzaD4kvKZJaA1xlTl kCuCjwe/niqeSvhn3PdyPf8k8IhsIBwfkdNOwFUWdSkculMreu81HLNfW0DstEH5 jZhxW/EwY/U= =BlfY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fea3174.1070...@free.fr