Hi All,

as you know, there was a glitch in amprolla this morning, and by
mistake ascii got merged on Debian Buster, the new Debian testing
branch. This means that the users who apt-get updated/upgraded (or
used aptitute update/upgrade) in the last 24 hours might have gotten
some packages from what is effectively Devuan unstable.

Please notice that only users using Devuan Ascii could be affected by
the glitch, and only those who upgraded their system in the last 24
hours. Devuan Jessie and Devuan Ceres are fine.

The issue has now been resolved, mostly thanks to the prompt action of
Centurion Dan and Nextime, and to the new version of amprolla coded by
parazyd and Wizzup, which is able to produce a new merged tree in much
less time than the current production system.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, but as said by jaromil,
this is the first time that we witness a Debian switch from testing to
stable on our merged repos. We have learned a lot from this incident,
and we thank you all for your patience.

For those whose Ascii system was erroneously upgraded with packages
from the new Debian testing, please keep reading since it is possible
to downgrade your system to use actual ascii packages. The trick
consists into introducing a temporary pin of ascii to 1001, then
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, and then remove the pin.

In other words:

1) create the file /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin containing the
following three lines:

Package: *
Pin: release n=ascii
Pin-Priority: 1001

2) # apt-get update

3) # apt-get dist-upgrade
(this should remove all the newly upgraded packages)

4) remove /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin

If you still experience issues, please get in touch via IRC on #devuan
or #devuan-dev (freenet).

HND

KatolaZ

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