Package: arduino-mk Version: 1.5.2-2.1 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, The arduino package provides an IDE that can be used to build Arduino programs and upload them to their target boards. The arduino-mk package provides an alternative, command-line way of doing the same, which is *extremely lightweight*, and thus very suitable for lightweight environments such as headless single-board computers, CI runners, Docker images, etc. On version 1.5.2-2.1, arduino-mk added arduino as a dependency. On a headless Bullseye, this pulls more than 100 packages that are not useful in this context, including a whole X11 stack and lots of Java stuff. That is hundreds of megabytes we have no use for. Doing so defeats one of the main appeals of arduino-mk. I have read the bug #981300 "arduino-mk: needs to depend on arduino 2:1.8.13+dfsg1-1" but, while that discussion addresses a real issue, I believe it reaches the wrong solution. As far as I can tell, depending on arduino brings only two benefits: 1. it pulls the dependencies on arduino-core-avr and avrdude 2. it gets us the 15-byte file /usr/share/arduino/lib/version.txt Point 1 could be achieved by having arduino-mk depend directly on arduino-core-avr and avrdude. Point 2 could be achieved by having Arduino.mk search for a version number in a file shipped by arduino-core-avr. It turns out the version of the core is more relevant than the version of the (unused) IDE. I suggest either: - Shipping a version.txt file in arduino-core-avr, and having Arduino.mk read that rather than the one shipped by arduino. - Having Arduino.mk read the version information from platform.txt, e.g. by grepping for /^version=/. Best regards, Edgar Bonet. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages arduino-mk depends on: ii arduino 2:1.8.13+dfsg1-2 ii make 4.3-4.1 ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii python3-serial 3.5~b0-1 Versions of packages arduino-mk recommends: ii screen 4.8.0-6 arduino-mk suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
