I just installed alpha4, unfortunately just hours before beta became
available. Naturally I want to upgrade from alpha to beta.

In my alpha 4 sources.list I have:

deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main non-free contrib

However, if the beta is jessie, then I should already be at beta
level. That is, a simple aptitude update/safe upgrade would be all I
need to do, rather than a dist-upgrade. Is that so?

Haines Brown