What is blocking the packaging of a newer upstream version? Any particular issue in later upstream releases?
The version currently in Debian is gputils 1.4.0, released in October 2014. Upstream isn't very active these days, but there have been some upstream release: 1.5.0 in August 2016 and 1.5.2 in January 2022. I feel that having a not-too-ancient gputils in Debian would be helpful for users of the sdcc package that use sdcc to target PIC devices. Philipp (not a gputils developer - just an sdcc developer, and not even a maintainer of the pic ports in sdcc).
