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

[Ryan Armstrong]

On 2021-03-21 9:58 a.m., Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 arduino-core-avr
>
> Hello Rayn,
>
> the bootloader files doesn't belong to the Arduino IDE directly but to
> the specific board support packages. In your case to arduino-core-avr.
>
> This impression is correct but also documented.
> Please have a look into
> /usr/share/doc/arduino-core-avr/README.Debian
>
> It's also partially documented within the Debian Wiki.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Arduino#FAQ
>
> If you can contribute more useful hints to the Wikis site please add
> your additional information.
>
> There is quite nothing we can do about this right now. We would like to
> get rid of arduino-core-avr but the libary handling of the IDE isn't
> supporting the dedicated installation of the AVRCore stuff in the
> reklease of the 1.x version. Might be happen within 2.x.

Ah, my mistake on missing the README and wiki (and picking the wrong 
package for the report). I can't think of a better solution at the 
moment, aside from forcing the user to read the readme on install :)

I may try to get the bootloader to build myself and provide an update if 
I have any success.

Ryan