Hello,
Arduino had some licensing issues that prevented it from being
upgraded in debian that were resolved last month. See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780706

it looks like it can go forward again!
-Scott

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:25 AM, solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote:
> Package: arduino
> Version: 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1
> Severity: normal
>
> stretch delivers arduino 1.0.5, which is pretty old. This means
> that some of the new features are not available. Specifically, it
> doesn't work well with HiDPI displays (aka retina displays). In
> the latest version (1.8.1) there is a global preference setting
> that allows to scale the interface to e.g. 200%, which is a nice
> setting for my MacBookPro 13". Would it be possible to include in
> stretch a more up to date version, including this feature?
> --
> System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages arduino depends on:
> ii  arduino-core                   2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1
> ii  default-jre [java6-runtime]    2:1.8-57
> ii  libjna-java                    4.2.2-2
> ii  librxtx-java                   2.2pre2-13
> ii  openjdk-8-jre [java6-runtime]  8u111-b14-3
>
> Versions of packages arduino recommends:
> ii  extra-xdg-menus  1.0-4
> ii  policykit-1      0.105-17
>
> arduino suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information

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