Adding packages to ubuntu-raspi-dev

[Pragyansh Chaturvedi]

Please consider adding the following to the packageset as well, as
these were recently accepted into questing:

+ python-v4l2
+ picamera2

Thank you
Best regards
Pragyansh

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 20:10, Dave Jones <dave.jones at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> 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 is obsolete from plucky onwards (its replacement is raspi-utils) but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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