#1085552 arduino-builder: deprecated upstream

Package:
src:arduino-builder
Source:
src:arduino-builder
Submitter:
Chris Hofstaedtler
Date:
2025-12-28 22:15:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1085552#5
Date:
2024-10-20 16:54:29 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

upstream has this to say on
https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder:

Please consider if this package should stay in Debian or not.

Chris
#1085552#10
Date:
2024-10-22 18:47:02 UTC
From:
To:
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,
#1085552#15
Date:
2025-04-05 11:19:34 UTC
From:
To:
An RFP for arduino-cli has been filed and obbardc and myself will be
working on it in forky.

best,

werdahias
#1085552#20
Date:
2025-12-28 22:06:40 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I just uploaded arduino-cli to NEW; thanks to Nicolas for doing most of
the work leading to that. Once it has been accepted I won't be objecting
to a removal of arduino-builder.

best,

werdahias