Bug#1130401: RFS: cocotb/2.0.1-1 [ITP] -- coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python

أحمد المحمودي <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:03:19 +0100

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Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Hello,

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cocotb":

* Package name    : cocotb
  Version         : 2.0.1
  Upstream Author : Chris Higgs, Stuart Hodgson <[email protected]>
* URL             : https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb
* License         : BSD
* Vcs              : https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/cocotb
* Section          : electronics

The source builds the following binary packages:

  python3-cocotb - library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python

Changes for the initial release:

cocotb (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) ]
  * Initial release  Closes: #1041288)

  [ Agathe Porte ]
  * Fix bad license declaration in d/copyright.
    Copyright should be separated from license.

The package has the following lintian issues:
I: cocotb source: older-debian-watch-file-standard 4 [debian/watch]
I: cocotb source: uses-deprecated-python-stdlib distutils (deprecated in Python 3.10, removed in Python 3.12) [cocotb_build_libs.py:11]
I: cocotb source: uses-deprecated-python-stdlib distutils (deprecated in Python 3.10, removed in Python 3.12) [cocotb_build_libs.py:12]
I: python3-cocotb: wrong-section-according-to-package-name electronics => python
P: python3-cocotb: repeated-path-segment lib [usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cocotb/share/lib/]

The package can be found on Git: 
https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/cocotb

Regards,

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‎أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
 Digital design engineer
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