[Pkg-electronics-devel] Packaging GHDL v5.0.1

[Paebbels]

Hi,

I would like to get in contact with the person(s) responsible for packaging
GHDL, so it can be updated and fixed for a v5.0.1 release. Currently the
packaging instructions produce broken installations on Ubuntu, Debian, ...
I assume any OS that uses apt has broken GHDL installations.

I suspect that installations are not tested, otherwise a test should have
discovered that problem.

I'm here to help the package maintainers understand how GHDL gets
configured, compiled, and tested so he/here/them can create a correct
package description. I can also explain GHDL's backend variants mcode,
llvm, llvm-jit and gcc.

I would also like to understand how a new version can be triggered, so GHDL
could potentially release 4 times a year.

I noticed many patches to GHDL. I would like to understand if GHDL
should integrate these changes e.g. into ./configure or ./Makefile.in.
Therefore
GHDL needs feedback from package maintainers, who report bugs and
suggestions.

The problems are summarized here:
https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl/issues/2710#issuecomment-2267471733

I also noticed GHDL was packaged multiple times also for previous GHDL
releases, but none made it into official release repositories. What's
missing or failing to make GHDL available?

Should GHDL's pipeline provide *.deb files via nightly builds?
Currently, all apt based OS get a GHDL update once a year, if even.

Kind regards
    Patrick Lehmann
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