[Pkg-electronics-devel] Starting to panic about (lack of) verilator, systemc, ghdl in Debian testing

[Larry Doolittle]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:11:47PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> It would be an unfortunate regression if Debian Bookworm shipped
> without verilator, systemc, ghdl.
> [...]
> I'm most familiar with Verilator, and can confirm that modern
> versions of it, e.g. v4.228, build and run flawlessly in a Debian
> testing environment.

Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> It's also good to open wishlist bug report for version updates of 
> packages so it's more visible for other that some update is probably 
> required for the package in question.

I found an open bug (#1008921) for Verilator, and added my
confirmation there (at least I hope my email goes through).

Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> I'm not using verilator so I can't do any QA after importing and 
> packaging a new version,
> What about you to step up and try to take over some maintenance?

As I said,
> I'm happy to advise, discuss, and help test.

So I'd be happy to help out on Verilator.
I've worked with it for a while, and can do quite a bit of QA.
If that means you can help me "learn the basics", that would be great.

  - Larry

P.S. Sorry about the quoting; it's the best I could do
with limited time.