Bug#1068174: yosys: Please package the latest upstream release

[Scott Ashcroft]

On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 15:05 +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> If you want to make things easy on DDs and yourself my recommendation would
> be to put this sort of commentary in d/changelog, not git commitmsgs, as
> that's more compatible with different workflows in Debian.

I'm used to the git changelog being critical so that'll take a bit of
adapting.

> Say you do end up having to go the mentors route, then your git commits may
> not even get looked at (depends on reviewer), however the debian/ files
> always are.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure this is the-done-thing since changelog is usually more
> user-facing and less reviewer-facing. I did the same thing as you before
> becoming a DD, but my thinking is that the DD uploading can always opt to
> remove superfluous changelog entries, but they might just ignore you if the
> amount of commentary is not to their liking so better to opt for more info
> in changelog.
> See also
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.en.html#best-practices-for-debian-changelog

OK. I'll have a look at that.

> Did you have a look over the pdf, does it look alright? Could you attach
> it?

It seems OK to me. No obvious errors or missing diagrams. See attached.

> > 
> You'll want to look at `reprotest`. There's also `debrepro` but that one's
> no longer really used. I had trouble reproducing failures locally. Since
> unstable is broken rn anyway we could also just upload when ready to find
> out.

I almost have things working without the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH patch. That
was handling some embedded pdfs and upstream seem to have sorted those
in a slightly different way.
The only bit which is still an issue is the ID of the overall PDF
document. 
When the presentation was built by a shell script you could just wrap
it with faketime in debian/rules.
Now the manual is built by a Makefile produced on the fly by sphinx-
build wrapping the calls to pdflatex isn't as easy.

Cheers,
Scott

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