Hi,

Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> writes:

> On Thursday 06 November 2025 at 12:04:15, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
>
>> the upgrading page suggests this:
>
>> #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main
>>
>> Will backports be eventually introduced? And how will I become aware of
>> that?
>
> I think backports are only available once the next release has started -
> otherwise there's nothing to backport from :)
>
> So, once freia becomes a (development) release, there might be backports to
> excalibur.

Taking a peek at https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/ I get the
impression that *-backports are available for all suites but ceres.

So here's wondering what does not go as expected, if anything, when
uncommenting that #deb line and runnig apt-get update ...
--
Olaf Meeuwissen