request to update the apt package for verilator

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On 1/2/24 20:20, Daniel Wilkerson wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu.
> $ uname -srvo
> Linux 6.2.0-39-generic #40~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov
> 16 10:53:04 UTC 2 GNU/Linux
>
> My verilator install is from August 2020, so I wanted a new version.
> $ sudo apt-get update
> ...
> $ sudo apt-get install verilator
> ...
> verilator is already the newest version (4.038-1).
>
> That is years out of date.  Verilator 5.020 2024-01-01 was just released.
>
> The verilator people say that it is up to the Ubuntu maintainers to
> update the apt package, so I thought I would ping you and suggest
> that.

Ubuntu almost never releases full version updates for software in the 
official repositories. Bug and security fixes are backported to older 
versions of the software for the sake of stability. It may be possible 
for a new version of software to be provided via the backports 
repository, but in my experience this is rarely done.

In Verilator's documentation, it specifies "Using a distribution’s 
package manager is the easiest way to get started. (Note packages are 
unlikely to have the most recent version, so Git Quick Install might be 
a better alternative.)" You might consider using that option instead. 
Alternatively, if there is a particular bug in Verilator that is 
impeding you, you can report it as a bug using the ubuntu-bug tool. 
(Note that new features are unlikely to be backported into the official 
repos. This is one of the advantages of Ubuntu - things don't change 
much unless you upgrade to a more recent release of Ubuntu. The downside 
is that you get old software unless you get it from the developers or 
alternate third-party sources.)

> Daniel
>
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Aaron Rainbolt
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