From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:   
   > Daniel James  wrote:   
   >> On 24/01/2026 01:25, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >>> As a guess: maybe the Raspbian package repo doesn't have sources   
   >>> for packages they copied from Debian instead of rebuilding   
   >>> themselves?   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Also I haven't seen the Debian repo used in Raspbian sources.list,   
   > though I haven't used the more recent RPi OS versions.   
      
   It uses both debian.org (or mirrors thereof) and raspberrypi.org. The   
   latter has RPi-specific packages (e.g. raspi-config) and RPi-specific   
   rebuilds of standard packages (e.g. vlc), but excludes packages where   
   the binaries are shared with Debian (e.g. coreutils).   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It works fine...   
      
   >> The issue is probably that /etc/apt/sources.list only has a line for   
   >> "deb" packages and not "deb-src" packages, by default.   
   >   
   > He posted that there was a "deb-src" line already.   
   >   
   > Anyway it still won't build him the latest Mailutils which would be   
   > easy to do the same way he already did it on PC (providing the   
   > dependency package names are changed to Debian ones), so I think I   
   > give up at this point.   
      
   The answer was clear from the original post: OP didn’t know how to get   
   source packages.   
      
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