[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#930890: Bug#930890: ghdl: Debian ghdl.wrapper prevents build when GHDL is not already installed.

[Jonathan McDowell]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 Update GHDL packaging for newer releases

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:57:33PM +0200, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> On Sunday 23 of June 2019 10:52:47 Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 12:26:36AM +0200, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> > > Source: ghdl
> > > Version: 0.36+20190617
> >
> > This is not a version of GHDL from Debian. testing/unstable both have
> > 0.35+git20181129+dfsg-3. I don't think this is a valid bug against the
> > Debian package - it seems that you've obtained an updated package from
> > somewhere else, or have manually updated to a newer release?
> 
> I have used original Debian package as "debian" directory
> source to port newer GHDL version for Debian Buster.
> 
> I am not sure if the problem applies to old version,
> but solution should work for all versions. I have built older
> version but on the system where GHDL has already been installed.
> So I expect that the problem may be there as well.

You have raised a release critical bug stating the package currently in
Debian fails to build from source. I think what you wanted to raise was
a wishlist bug requesting the packaging be updated to support newer
versions of GHDL. Retitling and updating the severity to indicate this
fact. This can be looked at once we have Buster released.

(I've confirmed that I can still build 0.35+git20181129+dfsg-3 in a
clean sbuild environment, so the FTBFS does not apply to the Debian
package and thus there's no need to fix it to ensure it's ok for Buster.)

J.

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