Re: Fwd: RFS: arrayfire/3.0~beta-1 [ITP] -- High performance library for parallel computing

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Ghislain,

the Git repository does not seem a debian/ dir and nor pristine-tar branch.

Please also send a patch for the tasks files.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:39:38PM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
> Date: 2015-05-25 20:29 GMT+01:00
> Subject: RFS: arrayfire/3.0~beta-1 [ITP] -- High performance library for
> parallel computing
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> 
> 
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for the following source package:
> 
> * Package name    : arrayfire
>   Version         : 3.0~beta
>   Upstream Author : ArrayFire Development Group <technical@arrayfire.com>
> * URL             : http://arrayfire.com/
> * License         : BSD-3-Clause
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : High performance library for parallel computing
> 
> It builds the following binary packages:
>  libarrayfire-cpu3 -- Shared library (CPU backend)
>  libarrayfire-cpu3-dbg -- Debug symbols for CPU backend shlib
>  libarrayfire-cpu-dev -- Development files for CPU backend shlib
>  libarrayfire-doc -- Doxygen documentation
> 
> Comments:
>  * The OpenCL backend requires dependencies which are not yet available in
>  Debian, namely the clBLAS and clFFT libraries. Packaging work is in
> progress
>  for both and I intend to update the package with this backend later, once
>  these dependencies are uploaded.
>  * The test suite is voluntarily disabled for now, because upstream strictly
>  requires the download of both gtest and additional assets via submodules. I
>  intend to discuss this issue with upstream and aim at having some sort of
>  offline test suite available in a future update.
> 
> This source package is maintained by the Debian Science Team and can be
> checked out at:
>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/arrayfire.git
> 
> The binary packages can be built with the following command:
>  gbp buildpackage --git-upstream-tag=upstream/3.0_beta \
>         --git-upstream-branch=master \
>         --git-debian-branch=debian/experimental \
>         --git-no-pristine-tar
> 
> I intend to seek sponsorship through the Sponsoring of Blends initiative.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ghislain

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