[Pkg-electronics-devel] Starting to panic about (lack of) verilator, systemc, ghdl in Debian testing

[Larry Doolittle]

Friends -

It would be an unfortunate regression if Debian Bookworm shipped
without verilator, systemc, ghdl.

The meta-problem with verilator and systemc is that Ahmed El-Mahmoudy, 
listed as the current Maintainer, is no longer active in Debian.

I see Andreas Bombe, the ghdl maintainer, is hard at work making
its build process compatible with testing's gnat.  Thanks, Andreas!

I'm most familiar with Verilator, and can confirm that modern
versions of it, e.g. v4.228, build and run flawlessly in a Debian
testing environment.

I'm happy to advise, discuss, and help test.  IANADD.  I read the general
instructions for packaging using salsa git, but got very confused about
how that git repo is intended to interact with upstream's git.

  - Larry