Main Inclusion Report for ocl-icd

Requirements

1. Availability: available for i386 and amd64

2. Rationale:

   • This package is needed as a dependency of nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 and of nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (main), so that the open source OpenCL loader is used over the proprietary one. This helps avoiding symbols mismatches when building OpenCL applications that are also supposed to work with open graphics drivers.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: none

   • Secunia history: none

   • Ubuntu CVE's: none

   • It is a free OpenCL loader.

4. Quality assurance:

   • Works out of the box without configuration
   • No debconf questions

   • Debian bugs: 3

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

   • Upstream is vigorous

5. UI standards:

   • None. It's an OpenCL ICD (Installable Client Driver) loader.

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy 3.9.5 compliant

7. Dependencies:

   • opencl-headers (universe) [khronos-opencl-headers] - build dependency - pending MIR: LP: #1382091

8. Maintenance:

   • Debian responsible for bugs.

9. Background information:

   • This package is needed as a dependency of nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 and of nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates (main), so that the open source OpenCL loader is used over the proprietary one. This helps avoiding symbols mismatches when building OpenCL applications that are also supposed to work with open graphics drivers. This will also be used for fglrx in the future and, when mesa is ready, also for open source drivers.

Reviewers

MIR bug: LP: #1382086

AlbertoMilone