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

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