[Pkg-electronics-devel] Help with GHDL package

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 14:22:11 Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
> Do you still have plans to update GHDL in Debian?
> 
> Now that Wheezy has been released, it could be really useful to get a
> working GHDL package in testing again. Once the package is ok there, I
> may be able to submit it to wheezy-backports as well.
> 
> My source package from http://jorisvr.nl/ghdl_debian.html still builds
> cleanly on the Wheezy release. Let me know if there is any way I can
> help with the package.

I'm afraid I have been so pressed for time in the last few months that I 
haven't been able to find time to work on the GHDL package. I'm very 
interest in keeping the GHDL package up and running, but that has started to 
be more difficult since it slowed way down upstream. Besides "real life" 
concerns, I have some other upstream open-source EDA projects in the works 
that are taking most of my time currently.

Anyway, I have taken a look at your package, and it seems you've rolled in 
some good patches, and done great work in general. However, it is a big 
change from how GHDL is currently packaged (for example, the change to use 
the gcc-4.7-source package looks good now, but I had to specifically STOP 
using the gcc-X.Y-source package years back when this caused TONS of 
problems as soon as it got out of date). Another example is that you 
generate the GCC tarball from the GHDL-SVN-style layout rather than using a 
release tarball (which is actually a very good idea given the current 
upstream state and makes appling patches easier in general). Anyway, no 
complaints here on either of these, really -- just examples of how its not 
totally trivial to merge what you have versus what is in Debian currently.

Since I just can't currently promise that I'll be able to take the time to 
roll everything up together very soon, I've CC'd this conversation to the 
Debian Electronics Packaging team. Perhaps somewhere there has the time and 
energy to roll in your changes nicely into the Alioth GHDL colloborative 
maintenance Git repository (ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/ghdl.git).

To the pkg-electronics team, please consider this e-mail explicit permission 
to NMU GHDL and/or add yourself as a co-maintainer at your own discression. 
I just ask that if you make changes, please take a very close look at how 
the Git repository currently works, especially with regards to topic 
branches before starting, so that any changes you make are applied correctly 
in the right places.
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