[Pkg-electronics-devel] iverilog 11.0 update

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Christian,

Am 28.09.20 um 19:44 schrieb Christian Svensson:
> Hi Debian Electronics Team,
> 
> I see on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/iverilog that iverilog has
> correctly been detected to have a new upstream version.
> It is also marked for auto-removal due to a bug (#966850) that seems to
> likely have been solved in the said new version.
> 
> Is there:
> a) Any ongoing effort to package this new version?
> b) Reasonable for me, a total newbie on Debian packaging, to somehow
>    help to get 11.0 packaged?

the current maintainer of iverilog, أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
stated about a month ago he will be offline for an unknown period of
time [1].

I've taken a quick look at iverilog and the new upstream version, looks
good so far as an import and a new upload is pretty straight forward and
also would fix the current FTBFS without further needed action. I can
prepare a new upload soon.

You might want to help to keep the package in a good shape, there aren't
big issues currently, but a good starting point is typically to have a
look at the output of lintian [2] from the package. So far I remember
there are still a few non blocking issues after importing the new version.

[1]
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-electronics-devel/2020-August/007345.html
[2] https://lintian.debian.org/sources/iverilog.html

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert