On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:51:24 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> I'd like to find how to get the packages firmware-b43-installer and
> b43-fwcutter in devuan beta.
>
> I've searched for info in the mailing lists and I've looked at the main
> Devuan site and the FAQ. But neither turned up relevant info[1]. The
> packages should be available in Debian jessie in the contrib repository

And they are.


> As a guess, I've tried adding the repositories like this:
>
> deb http://fi.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-security main contrib

No need to add the security repo AFAIK. This line should be suffice:
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib


> But the packages don't seem to be there, at least not for amd64.

Strange. On my amd64 system they're listed for all 3 suites
(Jessie, Ascii, Ceres).

> Is there a way to safely pull packages from Debian jessie? Or are these
> particular packages proscribed for any particular reasons?

No need to. Everything not in Devuan is pulled transparently
from Debian repositories, i.e. currently ~ 99.9% of all packages.
See also:
https://talk.devuan.org/t/amprolla-package-repository-layering-proxy/298

HTH, Regards
Urban