request to update the apt package for verilator

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 10:16 AM Daniel Wilkerson
<daniel.wilkerson at gmail.com> 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 That is years out of date.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.

Aaron explained Ubuntu's update policy. Also see
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>.

But from the looks of things, verilator does _not_ have a lot of
dependencies. You may be able to build the latest sources without much
trouble.

If I am parsing things correctly, it only depends on libc:

   $ apt-cache show verilator
   Package: verilator
   Architecture: amd64
   Version: 4.038-1
   Priority: optional
   ...
   Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29)
   Recommends: libsystemc-dev
   Suggests: gtkwave
   ...

Jeff