On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 10:18:12PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> 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 assume this example had the backports commented out because they are
only recommended to be used consciously when a user knows they want to
take from them, not because of the backports being thought unavailable.

> > I think backports are only available once the next release has started -
> > otherwise there's nothing to backport from :)

The backports have been open for months, long before Excalibur was
released! This is on account of Debian trixie already being released and
therefore trixie-backports already being made.

> > 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 ...

It will work exquisitely!