It appears that devuan is having trouble accessing at least some
packages from debian repositories.

Evidence:

I can't install monotone, the distributed revision management tool I use.

A few minutes before I noticed I was unable to install monotone, 
I had done 
    aptitude update
    aptitude safe-upgrade
and it found the following list of packages to upgrade:

: The following packages will be upgraded:
: bind9-host dnsutils gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 google-chrome-stable host
: iceweasel libbind9-90 libdns-export100 libdns100 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libirs-export91 libisc-export95 libisc95
: libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90 liblwres90 libnss3 libvlc5
: libvlccore8 vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse
: 26 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

When I told it to go ahead, it went through the usual set of upgrade
progress messagess, ending with:

: Setting up vlc-plugin-pulse (1:2.2.1-dmo1+cve1) ...
: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18) ...
:                                          
: Current status: 0 updates [-26].

So it looks as if that, at least, worked properly.

Are these all packages found in devuan's own repository?

Are packages that would need to be upgraded from debian's repository
simply ignored if devuan's 'merged' fails to find them, so they are neither
upgraded nor mentioned?

Or did the upgrade somehow make changes that interfere with
aptitude's ability to find packages?

I used dpkg and packages.debian.org for a workaround.

Links from packages.debian.org will eventually lead to a
downloadable .deb file. I ended up using dpkg to install both monotone
and its dependency, libbotan.

Dependency tracking by hand could get quite tedious if there are a lot
of them. Not to mention that from now on, libbotan will be known as a
package I asked for, and not as one installed as a dependency.

-- hendrik


On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 11:25:31AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 02:11:44PM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> > Most packages disappeared from:
> >
> > deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main
> > deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main
> >
> > There is no live-build, no kernel, no grub...
> >
> > Aitor.
>
> I noticed this morning that monotone was missing, but I guess there's
> a more general problem.
>
> That said, aptitiude update and aptitude safe-upgrade seemed to work properly.
>
> I'm using
>
> deb http://ca.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main
>
> deb http://ca.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ca.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main non-free contrib
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
> deb http://ca.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ca.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
>
>
> -- hendrik
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