Package dependencies do not allow libopencl1 providers other than ocl-icd-libopencl1

[Abigail]

The package dependencies are as follows:
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), ocl-icd-libopencl1 | libopencl1, ocl-icd-libopencl1 (>= 1.0) | libopencl-1.1-1

This means that, for example, if I use Nvidia's latest ICD loader implementation, nvidia-libopencl1-361, then I can't install clinfo.

There are multiple packages which provide libopencl1 - not just ocl-icd-libopencl1 (which contains Khronos' reference implementation) but nvidia-libopencl1-xxx, an implementation accompanying each Nvidia ICD (though they're not specifically tied to that ICD). Upstream in Debian there's also amd-libopencl1.

This package - as far as I can tell - should only depend on libc6 (>= 2.14) and libopencl1. It should function with any package that provides libopencl1, whether it's a vendor-provided implementation or Khronos' reference implementation.

Ubuntu version: 16.04
Package version: 2.1.16.01.12-1

[Abigail (abigail-buccaneer)]

Note that this does not affect debian upstream: all of the packages that provide libopencl1 in debian stable also provide libopencl-1.1-1.

Compare:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/clinfo
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/clinfo

[Andreas Beckmann (anbe)]

this is fixed in ocl-icd 2.2.12-2, clinfo needs to be rebuilt against this version once it has reached Ubuntu