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  • Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? C

    From Richard Kettlewell@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 25 09:49:10 2026
    Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails

    Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> writes:
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    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).

    OK, maybe the sources.list has changed in newer versions, but
    coreutils _is_ there the RPi repo, and updated in 2025:

    http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/coreutils/

    Not in arm64 trixie.

    $ curl -s https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/trixie/main/binary-arm64/Packages | grep 'Package: coreutils'
    $

    OP won't get source packages for the newer Mailutils version he wants
    that way, just the old version used for the package, which he's not
    happy with. But OP already has the sources he used for building the
    latest version on PC, minus the Debian patches (which might not work
    on the latest version anyway).

    I?m not clear why it has to be a specific version anyway...

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jan 26 14:39:45 2026
    Subject: Re: Mailutils not shown in Raspbian source ./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails

    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> writes:
    Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    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).

    OK, maybe the sources.list has changed in newer versions, but
    coreutils _is_ there the RPi repo, and updated in 2025:

    http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/c/coreutils/

    Not in arm64 trixie.

    $ curl -s https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/trixie/main/binary-arm64/Packages | grep 'Package: coreutils'
    $

    That appears to be something different. Trying the same thing with
    the raspbian.raspberrypi.org site the OP is using in their
    sources.list as they posted earlier:

    $ wget http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/dists/trixie/main/binary-armhf/Packages.xz
    [snip]
    $ xz -d Packages.xz
    $ grep 'Package: coreutils' Packages
    Package: coreutils

    (yes I know you can use pipes there too, I don't like wasting data
    and time if I want to run another grep)

    They don't seem to have 64bit packages at raspbian.raspberrypi.org,
    so I guess 64bit installs use "archive" or something else.

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