[Raspbian-devel] Future plans for Raspbian in relation to Debian?

[Andrei POPESCU]

Hello,

I would be interested about what the future plans for Raspbian are. As 
far as I understand (and hope) Raspbian is supposed to follow Debian as 
close as possible. However, Debian is quite a complex beast and I'm not 
sure what resources (both hardware and human) are available.

Since I'm not a coder/packager, but I'm quite familiar with Debian 
processes I think I might be able to help, for example by nicely asking 
maintainers to create backports of their packages where the backport 
would benefit Raspbian[1], or even maintain specific build targets[2] 
for Raspian.

[1] support for Raspberry Pi in libCEC was introduced only in later 
versions
[2] a note in xbmc's README.Debian looks quite encouraging that the 
maintainer would be interested in such a target.

What do you think?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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