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

[Matthias Geiger]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:47:02 +0200 Rock Storm <rockstorm at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
An RFP for arduino-cli has been filed and obbardc and myself will be 
working on it in forky.

best,

werdahias