Thanks for the offer, auanta. I am waiting for the Webmaster to sort it and upload the corrected instructions to devuan.org. I'll let you know when that's sorted.

@tomasz . . . I think I found the problem!

The instructions should begin with this:

I see now that this change was made to an incompletely updated file - that line was added but the other release references on the page were not updated and the page never transitioned to the Devuan website. Totally a screwup on our end to have missed that.

Would it be possible for you to test a migration adding that instruction?

Welcome to the forum and thanks for taking the time to share your migration experience. I am only going to comment on the use of http vs https.

Please have a look at this page for basic information about Devuan's round-robin of repositories. If you want to use https, chose a specific mirror from the mirror list for your sources.list configuration. There is additional information about how the mirrors are set up here.

Any improvements to the current migration documentation would be appreciated.

Good bye.  Please find a more suitable place to vent. I am giving you an opportunity to do so gracefully . . . Thank you.

(And now I need to decontaminate . . . )

I have spoken up for a lot in my 80 years and am very good at it. Had Alcoa tied in knots for years.  Stopped an airport and a sludge dump and was in part responsible for the resignation of some local politicians. There was a shareholder resolution against WF after Y2K to do non-GMO labeling and sourcing. Oh . . . and Devuan and Free Software, of course. 

It was exhausting and in the grand scale of things wasn't even a drop in the ocean. Ultimately the solution is NOT out there. Happiness and "freedom" and ultimately "liberation" lies in understanding our internal responses and judgments to whatever is "out there" and seeing those phenomena as empty and unworthy of attention.  Think Gandhi . . . as long as there is an "us" and "them" there is no peace. Only bondage.

Exactly. I don't do any Western medicine or doctors. Period. Big money really has the masses on a treadmill. Most food available commercially makes the population sick then they go to the "experts" which makes them sicker. It is a closed circle scam to extract money from us and keep us fearful and obedient. They can kiss my skinny azz.

Australia and US are only "white" nations because of colonization of those who originated there so your entire argument is based on a THEFT and SUBJUGATION and GENOCIDE. IOW pure evil

I suggest all users of this forum read "The dev1galaxy.org (almost) No Code of Conduct".

Those who want to continue to spew nonsense, can move on and do it elsewhere . . .

Humans are an insanely destructive species and will get what they have earned . . .

Thanks for having a look. I sure hope that someone can figure it out!

It has been uncompressed for years and working perfectly on an older Devuan. I just copied the configs to chimaera where the theme no longer works. I re-tarred it to post here in case anyone wanted to have a look at it since it's not available elsewhere.

I think they should be in /usr/share/images/desktop-base/. You can also download pieces of all the Devuan themes including the wallpapers from our gitea:

Doing that works for you but will slow down the syncing of our mirrors and cause more timeouts for everyone else.  There are also some changes that are in the process of being sorted.

Thanks for the feedback. All the pieces of the Clearlooks-Phenix-Sapphire theme are here and here if you want to give it a try.  Not quite sure about the openbox themerc. I asked for testers but no one ever responded . . .

It is never a good idea to use Debian repositories directly. All "safe" Debian packages are available through the Devuan repositories at  deb.devuan.org. You might want to have a look at this page.