Hi Jonas, On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 09:59:53AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hash: SHA512 > > * Package name : espflash > Version : 3.2.0 > Upstream Contact: https://github.com/esp-rs/espflash/issues > * URL : https://github.com/esp-rs/espflash > * License : Apache-2.0 or Expat > Programming Lang: Rust > Description : command-line tool for flashing Espressif devices
Thank you for packaging espflash! espflash is a rewrite of esptool, both of which are maintained by Espressif. I have spent a considerable amount of time contributing to esptool so I'm a little familiar with some of the issues there. Like esptool, espflash's upstream source contains precompiled binaries[1], built from freely licensed sources, that are clearly not Debian main-material. In the case of esptool and stubs specifically, my understanding is that they are not strictly needed but cripple the functionality a bit if they're missing. I'm not sure about espflash. 1: https://github.com/esp-rs/espflash/tree/main/espflash/resources For esptool, we've managed to build several, but not all, of the stubs with the toolchain that's in Debian. See the changelog for esptool 4.5.1+dfsg-0.1, as well as the history outlined in #1043168. My understanding is that with espflash, Espressif also rewrote the stubs in Rust, and therefore you won't be able to reuse our approach. Judging from the READMEs[2][3], it may make sense to package the stubs in separate package(s) so that both esptool and espflash can benefit from them. 2: https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-flasher-stub 3: https://github.com/espressif/esptool-legacy-flasher-stub/ Best of luck & let me know if you need another set of eyes or help. Faidon
