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

[Daniel Gröber]

Hi Tarik,

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:35:03AM +0100, Tarik Graba wrote:
> Just an additional argument for upgrading yosys to a recent version.

Just to be clear: We're not in need of arguments for upgrading, but people
willing and able to do the work :-)

yosys is just not my focus right now, but given a source package (that
ideally went through debian-mentors) I can make uploads.

> There is a promising SystemVerilog frontend plugin "yosys-slang"
> (https://github.com/povik/yosys-slang) that has even be used for real asic
> tapeout (http://asic.ethz.ch/2024/MLEM.html).

Awesome, love the name and logo. Thanks for posting this xD

> Because of changes in yosys internal API it only supports yosys version
> above 0.44 (yosys 0.49 was release this week).
> 
> Also, it would be nice to consider packaging this plugin (even if actually
> it is not very mature).

Sounds to me like you're offering to help with the Debian packaging ;-)

Looking forward to your RFS bug. See https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/

Thanks,
--Daniel
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