hey,

running unstable you can come across situations like this, many times.
personally i use safer `apt upgrade ` in ceres/unstable. mainly, cause i
need the system running :)

as for this current situation, i don't have such an issue with ceres.
can you paste someplace, a list of upgrades? (`apt list --upgradable`)

you could try updateing from another mirror as well, maybe sync delays
can trigger such issues.

sources.list, mixed w/testing :
deb http://xx.deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://xx.deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing-security main non-free contrib
deb http://xx.deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing-updates main non-free contrib
deb http://xx.deb.devuan.org/merged/ ceres main non-free contrib

d.


On 4/3/19 1:24 AM, Nicola Orrù via Dng wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> My first post to this list!
>
> For the last couple of days I've been trying to keep up-to date on
> Ceres, which I do quite regularly.
>
> But now, If I run the usual
>
> sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> I get the following alert:
>
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>   init sysvinit-core (due to init)
> 49 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 481 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 62.2 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 9362 MB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
>
> Of course I don't want to remove 481 packages. What am I doing wrong?
>
> This is the deb repo I'm picking from:
>
> nico@lenovo-devuan:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceres.list
> ## package repositories
> deb http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres main 
> deb http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres contrib non-free
>
> #deb http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-updates main 
> #deb http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-security main 
> #deb http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-backports main 
>
> ## source repositories
> deb-src http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres main 
> deb-src http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres contrib non-free
>
> #deb-src http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-updates main 
> #deb-src http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-security main 
> #deb-src http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged ceres-backports main 
> --
> Cheers,
> Nico
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dng mailing list
> Dng@???
> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
>