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Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was:
Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails
On 24/01/2026 21:11, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Raspbian doesn`t copy packages from Debian, it just uses the
>> Debian repos. The Raspberry Pi`s own repo doesn`t contain
>> userspace packages unless they`re pi-specific.
>
> This is evidently untrue simply from looking at the Raspbian repo`s
> contents. I found out the hard way that some packages like Firefox
> there are built only for Debian`s target ARM architectures, not the
> early Raspberry Pi boards.
I suppose it depends what you mean by pi-specific. Yes, there are builds
of some userspace applications in the pi repo (more than I realized, I
admit).
> Also I haven`t seen the Debian repo used in Raspbian sources.list,
> though I haven`t used the more recent RPi OS versions.
The debian.sources file in Trixie looks identical on my AMD64 box and my
Pi5. I don`t have Bullseye installs around, any more, to check.
> Would this even work seeing as there`d be conflicting packages for
> the same programs? In my experience with Debian on PC, it wouldn`t
> since Apt doesn`t favour one repo over another - it just selects
> whichever package versions look latest.
apt is complex. It uses version numbers, priorities, pinning, and
preferences from /etc/apt -- it does seem to work, but I haven`t worked
out exactly how.
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Cheers,
Daniel.
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