Comment 4 for bug 1425677

Can you explain the license issue? I might be able of helping out.

/d

Arduino Co-founder
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On 23 July 2015 at 20:37, Hans Joachim Desserud <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Thanks for reporting.
>
> I found a corresponding Debian bug report and have attached a bug watch.
> The maintainer there has been working on a new version, but is
> unfortunately waiting on license information from upstream.
>
> Regarding backports; normal procedure is that new package versions land
> in the development release. Once this has happened, it might be possible
> to request a backport of it for older releases (along with potentially
> any required dependencies). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports has
> more information on backports, in case you haven't seen it already.
>
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> Title:
> Arduino IDE v. 1.6 released, can we get in repository?
>
> Status in trusty-backports:
> New
> Status in arduino package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in arduino package in Debian:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> Per http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/02/09/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-
> download-it-now/ the newest version of the Arduino IDE is 1.6. The
> version in the repository is 1.05
>
> This release adds a long list of new features and is also supposed to
> fix many minor bugs in the existing version.
>
> Can we get a backport so that it is possible to install the current
> version without risking breaking things by doing so outside the
> standard Muon package management toolset.
>
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