[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#985653: arduino: Arduino Leonardo bootloader missing (and possibly others)

[Ryan Armstrong]

Package: arduino
Version: 2:1.8.13+dfsg1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The Arduino package (and any related packes I can find) appear to be
missing the bootloader for the Arduino Leonardo (technically tested
using an Arduboy, which has the same hardware). When performing a
"verify" operation on the board type, the build process reports the
following message:

Bootloader file specified but missing: /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/avr/bootloaders/caterina/Caterina-Leonardo.hex

I did not attempt an upload beyond this, as recovering a Leonardo/Arduboy 
with a missing bootloader is quite tricky. I saw several .txt files in
this folder, but no hex files at all. I also did not see any hex files
in the atmega8, lilypad, caterina-Arduino_Robot or caterina-LilyPadUSB
so I suspect a fair number of board types will have similar problems.

Ryan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-security'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages arduino depends on:
ii  arduino-builder               1.3.25-2+b1
ii  arduino-core-avr              1.8.3+dfsg1-1
ii  avrdude                       6.3-20171130+svn1429-2+b1
ii  default-jre                   2:1.11-72
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.20.7.1
ii  libastylej-jni                3.1-2+b1
ii  libbatik-java                 1.12-4
ii  libbcpg-java                  1.68-1
ii  libbcprov-java                1.68-1
ii  libcommons-codec-java         1.15-1
ii  libcommons-compress-java      1.20-1
ii  libcommons-exec-java          1.3-2
ii  libcommons-io-java            2.8.0-1
ii  libcommons-lang3-java         3.11-1
ii  libcommons-logging-java       1.2-2
ii  libcommons-net-java           3.6-1
ii  libhttpclient-java            4.5.13-1
ii  libjackson2-annotations-java  2.12.1-1
ii  libjackson2-core-java         2.12.1-1
ii  libjackson2-databind-java     2.12.1-1
ii  libjaxp1.3-java               1.3.05-6
ii  libjmdns-java                 3.5.5-1
ii  libjna-java                   5.6.0-1
ii  libjna-platform-java          5.6.0-1
ii  libjsch-java                  0.1.55-1
ii  libjssc-java                  2.8.0-3
ii  liblistserialsj-dev           1.4.0-1+b1
ii  liblog4j2-java                2.13.3-1
ii  librsyntaxtextarea-java       2.5.8-1
ii  librxtx-java                  2.2pre2+dfsg1-2
ii  libsemver-java                0.9.0-4
ii  libslf4j-java                 1.7.30-1
ii  libxml-commons-external-java  1.4.01-5
ii  libxmlgraphics-commons-java   2.4-1
ii  openjdk-11-jre                11.0.10+9-1

Versions of packages arduino recommends:
ii  extra-xdg-menus  1.0-5
ii  policykit-1      0.105-30

arduino suggests no packages.

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