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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Hi Abhijit,

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, Abhijit Kshirsagar (abhijit86k AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I recall compiling from source since the Ubuntu packages used to be
> far out of date. Today gEDA is no longer in the Ubuntu repo

the gEDA/gaf packages for Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) have been 
unmaintained for a while and are currently in the process of being adopted 
by a new maintainer.  Until then, you can compile gEDA/gaf 1.10.2 from 
source:

http://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.10/1.10.2/geda-gaf-1.10.2.tar.gz

> The Lepton README states that it is backwards compatible with
> gEDA-gaf, but are there more subtleties that may affect the end user
> (perhaps a slightly advanced user)?

The Lepton netlister breaks compatibility with gnetlist, so if you are 
relying on existing schematics still giving the correct netlist output, 
I'd recommend you to go with gEDA/gaf.

There has been a lot of improvement in the user interface and gnetlist in 
the past years:

http://ftp.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/stable/v1.10/1.10.2/geda-gaf-1.10.2-NEWS.txt

Roland