arduino IDE is very outdated

[RichardNeill]

The arduino version shipped with Ubuntu Wily should be a current build, such as 1.6.3.
In fact, it is version 1.0.5, which is 2.5 years old, and incompatible with most current boards.

This is made more confusing by a version number that doesn't make it obvious. Going to
Help-menu -> About Arduino, should show the numbering that corresponds to the source upstream.

However, what I actually see is the dpkg version, "2:1.0.5 + dfsg2-4".
This doesn't help the user easily understand "Are you running a recent build, at least version 1.5?"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: arduino 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.0.0-4.6-generic 4.0.7
Uname: Linux 4.0.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Aug 25 13:45:29 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-21 (733 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: arduino
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2014-04-22 (489 days ago)

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for the report, please see bug #1425677.

And further comments:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780706
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/2703

Long story short, Arduino 1.6+ is not legally re-distributable and they haven't updated their licenses in >7 months.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.