On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 07:10:50 -0400
". via Dng" <dng@???> wrote:

> > Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,
> >
> > Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan
> > Chimaera 4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the
> > result of lots of painstaking work by the team and extensive
> > testing by the wider Devuan community.
>
> I'm sorry to report that I tried a dist-upgrade from devuan beowulf
> with KDE on an older machine.  The result was a system with a
> nonfunctional window manager and messed-up display resolution, and no
> working Ethernet connection (and no wifi hardware).

AFAIK, that isn't the way you are supposed to do it.

Under beowulf; I did
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to change beowulf to chimaera
I actually copy and date the deb lines and edit version to chimaera and
comment out the beowulf lines so there is a history record.

Them with chimaera in the /etc/apt/sources.list
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot and repeat;
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
rebbot.

I was surprised when the second set was far longer that the first set.
A large number of libraries seemed to need to change, which could have
been because this was my main computer and often install programs to
try them out.

Also, YMMV, but there were a couple of 'sudo apt autoremove' in there.


> I'm going to try a clean install next.  Fortunately I keep my /home
> filesystem on a separate partition.

Wise move.