Paul Wise wrote:
My question was if the standard Raspbian (not Debian) sources.list (and
images containing that sources.list) should include the RPi repository
so that Raspbian users can install them easily. I was in no way
suggesting that these packages be included in the default Raspbian
images, just that they be easily accessible to Raspbian users so that
those users don't have a worse experience than the official install.
Currently the raspbian project doesn't build images, (mpthompson has
built a few in the past and I'm considering building them in the future
but we don't right now).
I'd imagine the majority of raspbian images out there do have the
raspberry pi foundation repository in their sources.list (after all they
will need the firmware if they want the thing to boot) but it's
ultimately up to whoever creates the image to decide what goes in their
sources.list. Also note that while raspbian is primerally targetted at
the Pi I do not intend it to be exclusive to the Pi, raspbian images for
other devices would obviously not want to include the raspberry pi
foundation repostory. We did look at (and succeed in) running raspbian
on the via APC, we just gave up due to horrible software support (iirc
you need binary only kernel modules to make even dumb framebuffer
graphics work)
I did intend to have an area in the raspbian repository for pi specific
packages (and it exists, it's just empty right now). I was hoping to
work with the raspberry pi foundation to make an orderly transition from
their monolithic kernel/firmware package to a more debian like approach
but the trouble is that everyone over there has other things higher up
their priority list right now.
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