Hi Nicolas, On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 at 20:07, Nicolas Peugnet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: arduino-cli > Version: 1.5.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Arduino CLI needs some additional binary tools to be installed to work > properly. Currently, these tools are installed automatically from an > Arduino-managed repository. This is not ideal from Debian's point of vue > as we prefer to provide all the binaries ourselves. Also, these tools > were not compiled for all the architectures that Debian supports, which > makes arduino-cli unusable on some architectures. > > I made an initial patch that does this, by loading the tools directly > from /usr/libexec/arduino. [1] We now need to package the 5 needed tools, > so I created this bug to track this. > > Here are the list of needed tools (the versions are not important, but I > kept them to demonstrate the required layout): > > /usr/local/libexec/arduino/ > └── builtin > └── tools > ├── ctags > │ └── 5.8-arduino11 > │ └── ctags > ├── dfu-discovery > │ └── 0.1.2 > │ ├── dfu-discovery > │ └── LICENSE.txt > ├── mdns-discovery > │ └── 1.0.9 > │ ├── LICENSE.txt > │ └── mdns-discovery > ├── serial-discovery > │ └── 1.4.0 > │ ├── LICENSE.txt > │ └── serial-discovery > └── serial-monitor > └── 0.13.0 > ├── LICENSE.txt > └── serial-monitor > > I started with mdns-discovery, for which I created the package > "arduino-mdns-discovery". I pushed this work in the go-team [2], but > we might want to move them to the debian-electronics team. > > Most of them are written in Go, but some (at least ctags) are in C. > > [1]: > https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/arduino/arduino-cli/-/commits/n-peugnet/system-builtin-tools > [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/arduino-mdns-discovery > > See also: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/issues/3106
I think it makes sense to create ITPs under the go-team. Let me know if you need sponsorship... Cheers! Chris
