Bug#850784: arduino: No HiDPI support in arudino 1.0.5

[solitone]

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?
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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.

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[Scott Howard]

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

[solitone]

On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 5:53:29 PM CET Scott Howard wrote:
> 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!

That would be great!

Thanks & Regards,
Davide