[Freedombox-discuss] ***SPAM*** Re: deb list for what is being included in freedom box

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-10-22 at 04:36pm, Robert Teeter wrote:
> The Debian version for Raspberry PI has hardware floating point 
> support in their kernel.

I recommend to avoid confusion by calling it "...Debian-like..." as it 
is not Debian:

  * I make .deb packages at http://debian.jones.dk/ but that does not 
    make those packages "Debian".
  * Raspbian which I suspect you are referring to makes .deb packages 
    but that does not make them "Debian" either.

Debian supports ARMv5 and ARMv7.  Raspbian is, I believe, a 
recompilation targeted ARMv6 (which includes "hardfloat" but not other 
features only in ARMv7).

It seems Raspbian intends to stay close to Debian on the source level, 
and simply recompile everything optimized for that ARMv6 hardware.

From bugreports I know concretely, however, that nodejs apparently is 
part of the "wheezy" suite on Raspbian whereas it has not been approved 
for wheezy on Debian.  Raspbian is therefore *not* strictly Debian 
recompiled, but also changes to available code, which may also mean 
differently linked libraries or other surprises that may end up 
affecting security or other high-level stuff!


 - Jonas

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