Blame it on my poor knowledge of Debian, and the siloed internal search
engine... I started today looking seriously into packaging ROCm, and
after 8 hours discovered that there is a dedicated team, slightly hidden
under the debian-ai mailing list : https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team .
The team have at least pushed one component of ROCm into stable already :
https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/roct-thunk-interface. (old
version, 3.7, current is 4.5, 5 announced)
A conversation between an AMD engineer and the Debian ROCm team started
here : https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/2021/03/msg00009.html
Would it be useful to place these packages under the umbrella of
Maintainer: Debian OpenCL Maintainers
<pkg-opencl-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
There is more in ROCm than just OpenCL, but I don't know a better
fitting team ...
I have no clue how this could be better setup, between teams that deal
with very similar issues.
There was no RFP nor ITP for the overall rocm, there is one now.
Guess I will play catch up, and see if I can help!
BR, Maxime
