Outdated arduino package?

[Simon Quigley]

Greetings,

On 07/23/2016 10:02 AM, Starbeamrainbowlabs wrote:
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> I'm emailing to ask about the official arduino package in the Ubuntu
> repositories. It's currently at version 1.0.5, yet the latest version on
> the arduino website is version 1.6.9. It looks like this package hasn't
> been updated since ~May 2013.

I've carbon-copied the Debian maintainers, as this isn't a problem with
Ubuntu, but there isn't an up-to-date Debian package.

> I looked at setting up my own ppa on launchpad and repackaging the
> arduino IDE myself, but instructions I found were so horrendously
> complicated and mentioned so many things that I hadn't heard of (and I'm
> fairly confident in a terminal) I've given up :(
> 
> Is it possible to have the arduino package in the official Ubuntu ppa
> for xenial updated please? If not, I'm open to having another go at
> packaging it myself, but I currently can't find any tutorials out there
> that explain the process adequately.

The Debian maintainers should be able to help you if you wish, either
way, it's brought to their attention and they should be able to explain
why it isn't up-to-date.

It needs to be updated in Debian because packages in Debian flow down to
the Ubuntu development release, and we can do something about getting in
in 16.04 then.

The latest version in Debian[1] is 1.0.5 as well, but in experimental,
they have 1.5.6.2, so it looks like they have been working on it a bit.

Thanks for pointing this out!

[1]
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=arduino&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

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