Adding packages to ubuntu-raspi-dev
Dave Jones
dave.jones at canonical.com
Mon Aug 4 10:07:39 UTC 2025
The "raspi" package set (used by the ubuntu-raspi-dev "team" [1]) was
originally added so that I could maintain those packages specific to the
Raspberry Pi, however it became rather moot after I attained MOTU
rights, and has stagnated somewhat.
Now we have another developer (Pragyansh) who's about to apply for
upload rights on Raspberry Pi related packages, I'd like to bring the
set of packages up to date, so this his application can be judged
against the actual set of packages he'll be maintaining.
At present (in questing), this package set contains:
* gpiozero
* lg-gpio
* linux-firmware-raspi
* linux-firmware-raspi2
* pi-bluetooth
* raspberrypi-userland
* raspi-config
* rpi-eeprom
* ubuntu-raspi-settings
The linux-firmware-raspi2 package can be removed from noble onwards
(that renaming happened back in jammy). The raspberrypi-userland package
is obsolete from plucky onwards (its replacement is raspi-utils) but
probably shouldn't be removed until we've got an LTS with the
transitional package in place. The pi-bluetooth package is also an empty
transition package since noble. And, naturally, there's a bunch more
packages we'd like to add (which are Raspberry Pi specific).
Please consider the following changes to be made to this package set
(prefix indicating removal or addition) in noble onwards:
- linux-firmware-raspi2
- pi-bluetooth
+ rpi-imager
+ raspi-utils
+ rpicam-apps
+ libpisp
+ pidng
+ kms++
+ simplejpeg
The last two packages may not appear raspi-specific, but are actually
from RaspiOS as dependencies of the (yet to be sponsored) picamera2
package (which is, obviously, raspi-specific). Whether they would fit
within the remit of the raspi package set, I am not sure (they should
work to some degree on other platforms), but I include them as they will
be packages Pragyansh will want to update in keeping picamera2
maintained (once that is uploaded).
[1]: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-raspi-dev
Thanks for your consideration,
Dave Jones.
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