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Name - dfu-programmer
Homepage - https://dfu-programmer.github.io/
Why should this be included in the repository? It's used for flashing Atmel microcontrollers over usb, a must development tool when you work with Atmel microcontrollers such as Arduino.
Is it Open Source (yes/no) - yes
Who and how many users do you anticipate will use this software? - at least me (i can package it and maintain it myself)
Link to source tarball/zip file - https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/dfu-programmer/dfu-programmer/0.7.2/dfu-programmer-0.7.2.tar.gz

This is latest tarball published on their github repo: https://github.com/dfu-programmer/dfu-programmer/archive/v0.7.1.tar.gz

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R4749 dfu-programmer
D5923R4749:e847849f95b7 Initial inclusion of dfu-programmer package

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chax created this task.Mar 22 2019, 9:27 PM
der_eismann added a subscriber: der_eismann.Mar 22 2019, 10:19 PM

The last release is over 4 years old.. seems a bit dead to me.

chax added a comment.Mar 22 2019, 11:33 PM

Yeah, seems that way, but there is really no alternative to this kind of software, and it's de-facto standard.

chax mentioned this in T7739: avr-libc / avr-gcc.Mar 22 2019, 11:50 PM
chax added a revision: D5923: Initial inclusion of dfu-programmer package.Apr 2 2019, 8:17 PM
der_eismann removed a subscriber: der_eismann.Apr 2 2019, 8:35 PM
DataDrake triaged this task as Low priority.Apr 30 2019, 2:07 PM
DataDrake moved this task from Backlog to Accepted For Inclusion on the Package Requests board.
DataDrake added a subscriber: DataDrake.

Only accepting this because literally no other application exists which can do DFU updates for Atmel chips on Linux. If it becomes a maintenance burden, we'll figure something out.

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DataDrake renamed this task from Package request: dfu-programmer to dfu-programmer.Apr 30 2019, 2:08 PM
DataDrake closed this task as Resolved by committing R4749:e847849f95b7: Initial inclusion of dfu-programmer package.May 21 2019, 12:45 AM
DataDrake added a commit: R4749:e847849f95b7: Initial inclusion of dfu-programmer package.
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