Provide sensible description of deb packages.

[baryluk]

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rocm-dkms and rock-dkms do have very short and not helpful first line description (a Subject), and no actual description.

Description: Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) Runtime software stack

Description: rock-dkms driver in DKMS format.

Both of these are very unhelpful when setting up and installing modules. They lack actual content, (multi line description). First one is basically incorrect. And second one is tautological and provides no useful information at all.

I also believe the "Section" field should be kernel for both of them, not misc (for rock-dkms) or devel (for rocm-dkms).

[jlgreathouse]

rock-dkms is a package that contains the DKMS-based versions of our amdgpu, amdkfd, and other GPU drivers that have modifications to allow ROCm to work. The actual code for the drivers that are in this package are contained in this repo, but the package ships a version of this code that is configured as a DKMS module. Note that you may not need to install rock-dkms to enable ROCM, as we have been pushing most of these changes into the upstream Linux kernel.

rocm-dkms is a meta-package that will install the rock-dkms driver package and the rocm-dev user-level software package. The latter is another meta-package which will install various ROCm software utilities.

I agree that the Sectiosn for rock-dkms should likely be kernel. I'm less certain about rocm-dkms since it also provides "Development utilities, compilers, development environments, libraries, etc.". The discussion about the rocm-dkms package should probably take place in an issue on the main project repo, however.

@fxkamd -- what are your thoughts on updating the rock-dkms .deb information per this request?

[fxkamd]

Sure. Updating the description wouldn't hurt. We should coordinate this with the team that builds the amdgpu-dkms packages, because they are built using basically the same scripts.