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Re: Tried an upgrade to Ascii today, and got this message...

dummy@example.com (MiyoLinux) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:00:21 +0000

I edited the OP to give a little more information...

Re: Tried an upgrade to Ascii today, and got this message...

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:24:51 +0000

Good timing . . . there has been util-linux activity on https://ci.devuan.org/ this morning. Some build success but a ways to go.

Re: Tried an upgrade to Ascii today, and got this message...

dummy@example.com (MiyoLinux) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:02:44 +0000

Thank you ma'am.

I was hoping it might help someone who was considering to try an upgrade.

Out of curiosity, I tried an upgrade on an already existing Ascii, and I got this...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bc gpsd jq libbluetooth3 libgps22 libgrits5 libhdf4-0 libjq1 libonig4
  librsl1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages have been kept back:
  initscripts sysvinit-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
  curl exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light ffmpeg libavcodec57
  libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libcurl3
  libcurl3-gnutls libpostproc54 libswresample2 libswscale4 sysv-rc sysvinit
  sysvinit-core

So things are still safe for exisiting installations. That warning in my opening post just happened today (I assume); I did an upgrade from Jessie to Ascii yesterday, and it went fine.

Re: Tried an upgrade to Ascii today, and got this message...

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:43:44 +0000

There are long standing issues with util-linux. Though I'm not quite sure what they are, this package is a major roadblock to the release of ascii. Hopefully will be rectified before or during the ascii sprint coming in mid-December.

Tried an upgrade to Ascii today, and got this message...

dummy@example.com (MiyoLinux) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:32:05 +0000

This was from a Jessie netinstall of only the base system, changed the sources.list to "pkgmaster" and ascii, then tried an update and dist-upgrade...

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what your are doing!
     e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) init sysvinit-core (due to init)
     sysvinit-utils initscripts (due to util-linux)
204 upgraded, 106 newly installed, 18 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 91.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 103 MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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Think I'll hold off...