Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "intel-mkl" * Package name : intel-mkl Version : 2018.2.199-1 Upstream Author : Intel * URL : https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl * License : Intel Simplified Software License (ISSL) Section : science Thanks for people who joind the discussion about MKL packaging at debian-science list. Intel MKL is widely used among scientific research/computing communities because of it's well-optimized and super fast. As previously discussed in debian-science list, having intel-mkl in Debian archive would be useful, and would benifit our users (especially the scientific users). So here is the package. Note that this is not a normal RFS since it involves huge non-free binary blobs. (~1GB source tarball) The packaging repo containing debian directory is here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/intel-mkl Upstream tarball is too huge so I uploaded it nowhere. As documented in README.Debian, the tarball can be found here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl Click "Free Download". The tarball will be available after registration. (Re-distribution is explicitly allowed even if one is required to register before downloading). Checksums are written in debian/rules. Local lintian test is totally clean. Please ignore lintian Info "unused override *", because the lintian overrides are automatically generated. MKL package is a bit complex, but let me try to explain it: 1. Copyright, the way to get upstream source, upstream source structure annotation, can be found in README.Debian 2. Installation and Usage are explained in README.Debian, they should give you a basic idea how this package is organized. 3. There is a detailed binary package index in debian/control. Files are carefully split into small packages. It must be pointed out that the two most important nodes in the dependency graph are libmkl-rt and libmkl-dev. The reason why db_input importance is set to critical can be fould in recent discussion in debian-science. libmkl-rt is a run-time dispatching library. It auto matically selects shared object from which symbols are loaded. Typically it select one shared object from each of the three layers: interface layer, threading layer, and computational layer. To reduce my burden, I grouped the children librarires of libmkl-rt with three meta packages, respectively. libmkl-rt plus the basic set of static libraries plus the headers equal to libmkl-dev. intel-mkl metapackage is simply a wrapper of libmkl-dev. I expect that most user pull mkl by installing intel-mkl. intel-mkl-cluster is intel-mkl + cluster support. intel-mkl-cluster is intel-mkl + cluster support + multiarch (i386) libraries + all other misc stuff. 4. Despite of the 1000+ line control file, I tried my best to keep the rest part of packaging simple and elegant. Python script debian/control.py generates all the .install files and all the .lintian-overrides file. It scans upstream tarball and put files in a proper package. I think the comments in the script should be enough for one to fully understand what it does. 5. The last problem is a trivial license problem. There are ambiguous license declaration in several files. I'm waiting for upstream reply[1] intel-mkl (2018.2.199-1) experimental; urgency=low * Initial release. (Closes: #895881) [1] https://github.com/intel/mkl-dnn/issues/206#issuecomment-385154890
