On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:15:06PM +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:44:26 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
>
> > It turns out my problems with aptitude seem to be over, after doing
> >

> >     apt purge aptitude
> >     apt install aptitude

>
>
> This appears to be a kind of redmondish solution... I'm wondering, if

Indeed. But at least I didn't have to reinstall Devuan. That would have been
totally redmondish.

> $ rm /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates*

It might have. The main point of purge was to remove its configuration and state
so it would start over.

-- hendrik