Re: Orphaning mu-editor, firmware-microbit-micropython, and their (build)-deps
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 16:34, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:
>
> Hey Nick,
>
> Thanks for maintaining mu-editor, my kids are just getting started with it. So
> I might be interested in taking it over. Are the updates a lot of work? I see
> the tarball is tagged with dfsg so there's that...
Dear Hans-Christoph,
Thank you for your interest. It's great to hear that you're starting
to use mu-editor with your kids - it's why I packaged it in the first
place.
Updating mu-editor, and firmware-microbit-micropython, can be
challenging at times and other times straightforward, depending on the
changes upstream have made.
The initial packaging of the whole "stack" took a long time, as
upstream deliver mu-editor, uflash and the micropython binary (one of
the reasons why it's +dfsg) all together in the same project. I think
it required 14 separate source packages to be built to finally get
mu-editor and micropython for the micro:bit into Debian.
Keith Packard (CC'd) is interested in contributing and co-maintaining
mu-editor, and there is a current MR in the repo. The mu-editor
repository has also just had a drive-by upstream bump to version 1.2.0
but nothing else so far...
Thanks,
Nick
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