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

[Larry Doolittle]

Hi everyone -

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 10:51:44AM +0100, Tarik Graba wrote:
> I have tested the version merged in Salsa (built on Debian Bookworm) and it
> seems ok.
> Le 27/01/2025 à 20:06, Scott Ashcroft a écrit :
> > I think I've done the work to get 0.49 packaged and it has been merged
> > in salsa.

I love all the interest in and activity surrounding yosys in Debian!

But when I go to
  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=yosys
there's nothing newer than 0.33-6, and _nothing_ in Testing.
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/yosys
says yosys 0.33-6 is BLOCKED due to bug #1093368
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1093368

I think I'm like most people here: not a DD, can build yosys
just fine locally, but don't understand the intricacies of
the Debian packaging/building framework.

When Debian Trixie comes out, I _really_ want to tell a general
EDA audience that they can get a working version of yosys with
"apt-get install yosys".  That worked for Bookworm.
It would be sad if it didn't work with Trixie.

Finally, I note that yosys "latest release" is 0.50 (Feb 11, 2025).
Despite 0.44 being listed on the Debian tracker
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/yosys
I can confirm that 0.50 builds easily and runs great in a
Bookworm environment.  I can (and I guess, should) double check
that in Trixie.

  - Larry