An installation of manpages-de 4.9.1-5 causes to remove more then 50 packages among which are xorg, linux-image, eudev, cryptsetup-initramfs, udev, procps, initramfs-tools, firefox-esr, openssh-server, cups etc.

First I struggled over a strange behavior updating psmisc, cf. the situation in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=982059

This affects Devuan Ceres system, but not Beowulf.

Debian Sid seems not to be affected.

bug number #552