Comment 50 for bug 1129409

I must admit, I'm beginning to have serious doubts about this bug getting
fixed. Considering the amount of people and programs that this affects, I
would have considered it a priority. Also considering that it will most
likely take less than 15 minutes to do, this just adds doubt about
Canonical's commitment to Ubuntu on the desktop
On 12 Jan 2015 16:51, "Gijs Peskens" <email address hidden> wrote:

> It's 2015 now, we are /4/ months further and /NO/ fix has been ported
> into the right channels.
>
> This is a big shame and it shows the utter lack of quality control in
> Canonical pushing releases
>
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> Title:
> Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide
> libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.
>
> Status in boinc package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-310-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-313-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in pycuda package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in pyopencl package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in starpu-contrib package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in viennacl package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The nvidia-cuda-toolkit package needs to depend on a minimum version of
> the CUDA library included in nvidia-graphics-drivers.
> The current Debian version of nvidia-cuda-toolkit (5.0.35-4) does this
> on Debian systems by checking the version of libcuda1 and on Ubuntu systems
> by checking the version of nvidia-current, nvidia-curent-updates,
> nvidia-experimental-304 or nvidia-experimental-310.
>
> It would greatly simplify maintenance of packages building against
> libcuda.so.1 and libOpenCL.so.1 if the nvidia-graphics drivers could
> provide virtual packages that reflect the API level, for example,
> libcuda-5.0-1 and libopencl-1.2-1.
>
> It was decided that the nvidia drivers packages will provide
> libcuda-5.0-1, libopencl1 and opencl-icd (LP: #763457) virtual packages.
> Additionally, nvidia-*.shlibs would contain:
> libOpenCL 1 libopencl1
> libcuda 1 libcuda-5.0-1
> libGL 1 libgl1
>
> Similarly, the amd drivers package will provide libopencl1 and
> opencl-icd virtual packages, as well as an .shlibs containing:
> libOpenCL 1 libopencl1
> libGL 1 libgl1
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