On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:11:13 +0000
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> If you are on Devuan Jessie you can just simply *upgrade* to Devuan
> Ascii. There is no need to start from another distribution. Just
> replace "jessie" with "ascii" in your sources.list, and then
>
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> My2cents
>
> KatolaZ

Worked like a charm (~1500 packages, 750mb, less than a couple of hours
downtime). One observation: although the dist-upgrade was
performed over ssh, the installation of glibc was halted because xdm
was active; the option to continue was ignored and the interrupted
upgrade process had to be resumed with an 'apt-get install -f ' to fix
broken dependencies before re-issuing the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which
ran to completion without a hitch.

Respect to the devs.