BOINC for Debian and Ubuntu =========================== Debian and Ubuntu developers maintain the BOINC packages together on the pkg-boinc alioth.debian.org project. You may be interested to hear * The package provides two virtual packages to help with package dependencies to support the employment of graphics cards with the computations. For NVidia this is fine, but the AMD/ATI fglrx drivers are regularly incompatible with the latest releases of X. At the very moment the release team has hence decided to remove those and all source packages that depend with a binary on them, to be removed from the testing distribution. To have BOINC back in, and to help eliminate an older mysql dependency, this release now sees the OpenCL helper package for AMD/ATI removed. This is temporary, I very much hope. * For our own motivation, and also for us maintainers communicating with upstream to help them recognize how important the Debian/Ubuntu packaging is for BOINC, please consider to install the popularity-contest package.