[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1101325: nextpnr: New upstream release 0.8

[Daniel Gröber]

Package: src:nextpnr
X-Debbugs-CC: Tarik Graba <tarik.graba at telecom-paris.fr>

Hi Tarik,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Tarik Graba wrote:
> I do not know if you have noticed that there is a new release upstream of
> nextpnr?
> 
> https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr/releases/tag/nextpnr-0.8

I started packaging earlier today. Current blocker is that I'm undecided on
is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101323.

Upstream import and WIP packaging is already in salsa if you want to help:

 $ gbp clone https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/nextpnr

> > The important change is that they removed nextpnr-gowin which is
> supposed to be replaced by nextpnr-himbaechel supporting Gowin FPGAs.  I
> did not test this as I do not have Gowin FPGAs.

Right I've been mulling whether I should Conflict+Replaces nextpnr-gowin
with nextpnr-himbaechel-gowin (symlinks) or not. Digging into what the
cmdline differences are would be useful!

> I do not know what is the impact of this on Debian packaging and if I
> should open a bug report (at least for tracking the process).

Someone has to do it and it's always good to send a friendly "please
package new upstream version" bug if there isn't one already.

Actually helps grease the wheels process wise in most cases so you should
always do that :-).

If my BTS-foo doesn't fail me this mail should open a bugreport. Let's see.

> Thanks for your work maintaining the free FPGA toolchain on Debian.

  <3

--Daniel