The state of Intel compute/AI packages.

[silex <silex@yash.pl>]

Hello everyone,

I recently switched from AMD GPU to Intel ARC for my Blender and Stable 
Diffusion work.

Intel compute related packages in Debian are maintained under 
pkg-opencl-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org. Unfortunately that mailing 
list is riddled with spam, and from what I can see is not very active. 
Since the 4 of september intel-compute-runtime package has serious bug 
that makes it uninstallable with newest compiler: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051189 That package 
also is couple solid months behind upstream.

I'm writing about it here to maybe start a discussion whether it would 
be better to have AI/compute packages from all GPU vendors under the 
same roof?
My apologies if this question is inapropriate.

Best regards, and thanks for your work,
Jakub Jaszewski