[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1085552: Bug#1085552: arduino-builder: deprecated upstream

[Rock Storm]

On Sun, 2024-10-20 at 18:54 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> upstream has this to say on
> https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder:
> 
> > DEPRECATION WARNING: This tool is being phased out in favor of
> > Arduino CLI, we recommend to use Arduino CLI for new projects.
> > 
> > The source code of the builder has been moved in the arduino-cli
> > repository (as a legacy package) where it will be maintained and
> > developed and eventually moved outside the legacy package once
> > properly integrated in the Arduino CLI codebase.
> > 
> > The arduino-builder is now just a wrapper of arduino-cli. We will
> > continue to provide builds of this project for some time to allow a
> > smooth transition period to our users.
> 
> Please consider if this package should stay in Debian or not.

Hi Chris, you are right, arduino-builder is a dependency for the arduino
package, the Arduino IDE. Arduino IDE 2.x version, no longer uses
arduino-builder and therefore this package will only make sense to keep
for as long as we ship Arduino 1.x. If/when Arduino IDE 1.x is removed
from Debian's repositories we can safely remove this package as well.

I'm currently unable/unwilling to package Arduino CLI, which would be
the replacement for this builder package. So if anyone wants to have a
go please be my guest.


Regards,

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