[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#856413: gpiozero: please provide python module on all architectures

[Ben Nuttall]

Thanks Nick

Please could you make gpiozero available for all arches?
>

I don't believe any changes to the library would be required for this. The
control file
already states "Architecture: all" [1]. Is that correct, or is there
anything else required?

[1]
https://github.com/RPi-Distro/python-gpiozero/blob/master/debian/control#L21


> (Note: as we don't yet have pigpio packaged in Debian I have created an
> RFP [2])
>
>   [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908787
>

I think the package you want is python3-pigpio, rather than pigpio.

pigpio is the C library which runs as a daemon on the Pi. It accepts remote
commands
and executes them on the Pi. The Python client (the package would be
python3-pigpio)
is pure Python and is what communicates with remote Pis.

However, both pigpio and python3-pigpio are contained within the same
source repo
on GitHub. In Raspbian we have both of these packaged. x86/64 Debian users
will have
no need for pigpio, but there's a use case for the Python client as it
allows remote GPIO
(either behind gpiozero or directly). That's the functionality Mu depends
on. For the sake
of completion (unrelated to Mu), it would be nice to see pigpio itself in
Debian, for those
using vanilla Debian on the Pi.

Let me know what we can do to help!

Thanks

Ben


>
> Many thanks,
> Nick
>
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