Hi Massimiliano,

On 2016-12-20 22:12, Massimiliano Baldinelli wrote:
> Since the switch from Stretch to Ascii I noticed the lack of the long
> packages descriptions in aptitude, [...]

Devuan repositories still lacks Contents and translation files [1].

I am working around this by adding Debian sources and pinning them to
-1 priority:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian Backports
Pin-Priority: -1

1: https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/issues/75

Petr