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

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Du, 09 sep 12, 00:31:37, peter green wrote:
> 
> Human resources are the bigger concern, we need to either expand our pool
> of competant and trusted developers and/or put in place more automation
> if we are to avoid going insane during the jessie cycle.

I can try to help as much as possible.
 
> >[2] a note in xbmc's README.Debian looks quite encouraging that
> >the maintainer would be interested in such a target.
> One thing I do want to do is keep the generic and Pi specific parts
> of raspbian
> seperate. There are a couple of reasons for this, firstly some
> people may want
> to run as "pure" a system as possible with the firmware being the
> only non-free
> thing on their box.

As a Debian purist myself I like that very much :)

> As such my preffered way to handle xbmc would be a deidcated xbmc-rpi
> source package. Ideally i'd like this to be derived from the debian source
> package with as few changes as possible to make it easier for me to review.

Cool.

> >[1] support for Raspberry Pi in libCEC was introduced only in
> >later versions
> Do you know if libCEC requires any broadcom libs to support the Pi?
> (e.g. will we need a special build of it for the Pi?)
> Do you know if the debian maintainer for libCEC has a debian package
> available of a suitable version?

I might be able to help here as I was just about to start investigating 
libCEC and XBMC compilation.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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