[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 25.10 released

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi James,

Quoting James Valleroy (2025-08-19 13:42:25)
> On 8/19/25 2:41 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting James Valleroy via Freedombox-discuss (2025-08-19 04:47:43)
> >> FreedomBox 25.10 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable.
> >>
> >> It is expected that trixie-backports will be opened for uploads in the next couple of weeks.
> >>
> >> Highlights of this release:
> >>
> >>    * email: Add full text search capability
> >>    * homeassistant: Add the most popular app for home automation
> > 
> > How was adding homeassistant done? I am unaware that that is packaged
> > in Debian - is FreedomBox no longer a Debian Pure Blend?
> 
> We are using a docker/podman container provided by upstream to run Home Assistant. It is the same case for the Nextcloud 
> app in FreedomBox.
> 
> I believe there is some progress towards packaging Home Assistant in Debian, and when that is available we are planning 
> to switch to using the package.
> 
> I suppose this makes FreedomBox a non-pure blend. If there are user requests to have a pure blend version of FreedomBox, 
> then we can work on separating the pure and non-pure parts into 2 packages.

Thanks for the clarification.

My concern is the packages task-freedombox-blend and freedombox that
are officially parts of Debian. Do they pull in these containers, or is
that done in some imaging scripts external to Debian?

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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