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   Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier?   
   Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails   
      
   On 24/01/2026 21:11, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >> Raspbian doesn't copy packages from Debian, it just uses the    
   >> Debian repos. The Raspberry Pi's own repo doesn't contain    
   >> userspace packages unless they're pi-specific.   
   >    
   > This is evidently untrue simply from looking at the Raspbian repo's    
   > contents. I found out the hard way that some packages like Firefox    
   > there are built only for Debian's target ARM architectures, not the    
   > early Raspberry Pi boards.   
      
   I suppose it depends what you mean by pi-specific. Yes, there are builds    
   of some userspace applications in the pi repo (more than I realized, I    
   admit).   
      
   > Also I haven't seen the Debian repo used in Raspbian sources.list,   
   > though I haven't used the more recent RPi OS versions.   
      
   The debian.sources file in Trixie looks identical on my AMD64 box and my    
   Pi5. I don't have Bullseye installs around, any more, to check.   
      
   > Would this even work seeing as there'd be conflicting packages for   
   > the same programs? In my experience with Debian on PC, it wouldn't   
   > since Apt doesn't favour one repo over another - it just selects   
   > whichever package versions look latest.   
      
   apt is complex. It uses version numbers, priorities, pinning, and    
   preferences from /etc/apt -- it does seem to work, but I haven't worked    
   out exactly how.   
      
      
   --    
   Cheers,   
     Daniel.   
      
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