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Thank you for clarifying that.
I had performed several unsuccessful DuckDuckGo searches on site:devuan.org, looking for “tempforever.com” or its long-format RSA key fingerprint, but not for “tempforever” or its short-format key fingerprint.
I just imported tempforever's public RSA key and successfully verified the installer-iso/SHA256SUMS.txt file downloaded via the magnet link.
Everything is OK.
Many thanks to the whole team for their great work on Devuan 6!
Hello, and thank you very much for your work.
I have just discovered something strange and worrying about some of the Devuan 6.1 files that I downloaded via the official magnet link.
Regarding the desktop-live/ and minimal-live/ directories, everything is OK, because the command
gpg --verify <NAME>.iso.sha256.asc <NAME>.iso.sha256returns:
gpg: Signature made Sat Jan 3 01:09:42 2026 CET
gpg: using RSA key 67F5013216271E85C251E480A73823D3094C5620
gpg: Good signature from "fsmithred (aka fsr) <fsmithred@gmail.com>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 67F5 0132 1627 1E85 C251 E480 A738 23D3 094C 5620This result is normal and confirms the authenticity of the .sha256 file in relation to Devuan's official public GPG key, which I imported into my keyring from the official file https://files.devuan.org/devuan-devs.gpg, without assigning it a specific trust level.
BUT, in the installer-iso/ directory:
user@devuan:~$ gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.txt.asc SHA256SUMS.txt
gpg: Signature made Thu Dec 25 19:41:10 2025 CET
gpg: using RSA key 185E56E98DA03B6CEADAC81983161D4768BE620B
gpg: issuer "dev1@tempforever.com"
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key→ This RSA fingerprint does not match any key in my GPG keyring, even though I imported the contents of the official file https://files.devuan.org/devuan-devs.gpg!
The gpg --verify result is the same when I download these two files, SHA256SUMS.txt.asc and SHA256SUMS.txt, via HTTP from an official mirror.
I see two possibilities:
Either the official file https://files.devuan.org/devuan-devs.gpg is incomplete
Or the files in the installer-iso/ directory have been tampered with by an unauthorized person (outside the Devuan team project)
And I notice that:
Regarding the address dev1@tempforever.com, DuckDuckGo returns a list of temporary email address providers, and nothing for “tempforever.com.”
The tempforever.com website cannot be reached via HTTP because its Apache 2.4.65 server running Debian (IP: 167.88.38.250) located in Boston, USA, is not configured (according to https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/).
A whois query indicates that the tempforever.com domain was created on March 30, 2021. A few months later, on December 26, 2021, a snapshot of the site's home page was saved on the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20211226174 … rever.com/), which redirects to an April 15, 2022 archive of splittheirears.com
The GPG key corresponding to this RSA signature and mysterious email address is available on the hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ server. But since it is not mentioned on the official devuan.org website (https://www.devuan.org/os/keyring), I cannot trust it at all.
I work with Devuan 5 every day and I need to have confidence in the entire Devuan infrastructure in order to continue with Devuan 6.
Am I missing something? Or is this a real problem?
I discovered the bug concerns Devuan 1 too.
So I suggest this updated script to fix it :
#!/bin/sh
## Bug fix for Devuan1 and Devuan2
## https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11505
if test "$USER" != "root"; then
echo "This is a bug fix for Devuan1 and Devuan2."
echo "See: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11505"
echo "root user required!"
exit 1
fi
test -d /usr/share/python-apt/templates || mkdir -pm 755 /usr/share/python-apt/templates
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info << EOF
ChangelogURI: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/%s/%s/%s/%s_%s/changelog
Suite: jessie
RepositoryType: deb
BaseURI: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
MatchURI: deb.devuan.org/merged
MirrorsFile: Devuan.mirrors
Description: Devuan 1.0 'jessie'
Component: main
CompDescription: Officially supported
Component: contrib
CompDescription: DFSG-compatible Software with Non-Free Dependencies
Component: non-free
CompDescription: Non-DFSG-compatible Software
Suite: jessie-updates
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: jessie
Description: Recommended updates
Suite: jessie-security
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: jessie
Description: Security updates
Suite: ascii
RepositoryType: deb
BaseURI: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
MatchURI: deb.devuan.org/merged
MirrorsFile: Devuan.mirrors
Description: Devuan 2.0 'ascii'
Component: main
CompDescription: Officially supported
Component: contrib
CompDescription: DFSG-compatible Software with Non-Free Dependencies
Component: non-free
CompDescription: Non-DFSG-compatible Software
Suite: ascii-updates
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Recommended updates
Suite: ascii-security
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Security updates
EOF
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.mirrors << EOF
#LOC:any
http://deb.devuan.org/merged
EOF
echo "Bug fix is done."I have just found how to remove the the warning "Failed to read mirror file". In the file Devuan.info, simply replace "MirrorsFile: mirror_list.txt" with "MirrorsFile: Devuan.mirrors".
So my script python-apt-common_template_fix.sh should finally look like that:
#!/bin/sh
## Bug fix for Devuan2
## https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11505
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info << EOF
ChangelogURI: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/%s/%s/%s/%s_%s/changelog
Suite: ascii
RepositoryType: deb
BaseURI: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
MatchURI: deb.devuan.org/merged
MirrorsFile: Devuan.mirrors
Description: Devuan 2.0 'ascii'
Component: main
CompDescription: Officially supported
Component: contrib
CompDescription: DFSG-compatible Software with Non-Free Dependencies
Component: non-free
CompDescription: Non-DFSG-compatible Software
Suite: ascii-updates
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Recommended updates
Suite: ascii-security
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Security updates
EOF
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.mirrors << EOF
#LOC:any
http://deb.devuan.org/merged
EOFThanks fsmithred,
The test pass with a not blocking error related to UbuntuDrivers, both with software-properties-gtk and synaptic-pkexec.
I put your fix in a script python-apt-common_template_fix.sh and run it:
#!/bin/sh
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info << EOF
ChangelogURI: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/%s/%s/%s/%s_%s/changelog
Suite: ascii
RepositoryType: deb
BaseURI: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
MatchURI: deb.devuan.org/merged
MirrorsFile: mirror_list.txt
Description: Devuan 2.0 'ascii'
Component: main
CompDescription: Officially supported
Component: contrib
CompDescription: DFSG-compatible Software with Non-Free Dependencies
Component: non-free
CompDescription: Non-DFSG-compatible Software
Suite: ascii-updates
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Recommended updates
Suite: ascii-security
RepositoryType: deb
ParentSuite: ascii
Description: Security updates
EOF
cat > /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.mirrors << EOF
#LOC:any
http://deb.devuan.org/merged
EOFHere are the terminal outputs:
demo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ gksu software-properties-gtk
ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers'
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:154:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:155:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:584:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:585:28: The style property GtkWidget:interior-focus is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:586:28: The style property GtkButton:default-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:587:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1344:25: The style property GtkRange:slider-width is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1345:25: The style property GtkRange:stepper-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1346:34: The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1347:28: The style property GtkRange:stepper-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4999): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1348:34: The style property GtkRange:trough-under-steppers is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future versiondemo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ synaptic-pkexec
ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers'
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:154:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:155:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:584:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:585:28: The style property GtkWidget:interior-focus is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:586:28: The style property GtkButton:default-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:587:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1344:25: The style property GtkRange:slider-width is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1345:25: The style property GtkRange:stepper-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1346:34: The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1347:28: The style property GtkRange:stepper-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
(software-properties-gtk:4825): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1348:34: The style property GtkRange:trough-under-steppers is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future versionTo remove the warning "Failed to read mirror file", I tried to add a trailing slash to http://deb.devuan.org/merged in Devuan.mirrors, as I believe trailing slashes for sources.list are mentioned in Debian specs. But the warning still remains.
Whatever, I think the bug is fixed! Thanks!
Thanks golinux for your answer.
I have made many and many checks:
The problem remains the same whatever stands is /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
I have looked at the python scripts, purged and reinstalled packages, checked system files ownerships and permissions, and watched strace log of synaptic failing to open the repository settings. Nothing found.
Finally, I have searched on the web and found very much similar errors (also in the synaptic debian bug archive), but no real solution.
Someone to "solve" this issue on Linux Mint gave a dirty hard code trick for a python script.
Someone on the ubuntu forum gave a better solution : simply add a file /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info.
Can someone on this forum give a "corporate content" for /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info?
To clarify, here is the bug I have first found that affect only some of my upgraded machines :
For unknown reason, synaptic fails to open the settings when python3-software-properties is installed on some of my upgraded devuan2 machines, but not on a freshly installed devuan2 from DVD.
Then I found that it concerns all the machines that have software-properties-gtk installed:
With that package, the error output within the terminal is the same, related to a missing file /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info
So, everyone can reproduce that bug from a fresh installed devuan2 (mine just have virtualbox additions):
First install software-properties-gtk:
root@fresh_installed_devuan2:~# apt-get -y install software-properties-gtkThen go crashing python module:
demo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ gksu software-properties-gtk
ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 101, in <module>
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 109, in __init__
SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Devuan/asciidemo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ synaptic-pkexec
ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 101, in <module>
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 109, in __init__
SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Devuan/asciiI think this can be solved as easy as creating a good file /usr/share/python-apt/templates/Devuan.info (provided for instance by a postinst script of a package file depending on python-apt-common).
Hi!
I had the same problem of no-root buggy outputs of lsb_release on my devuan2 real and virtual machines upgraded from devuan1 and debian7.
As I noticed that problem does not concern freshly installed devuan2 machines, I made investigations and... I have just found how to fix it :
chmod 755 /var/lib/apt/lists---
For information, I share the details of my investigations here:
That bug does not concern fresh installed devuan2 from DVD:
demo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)
Release: 2.0
Codename: asciiBut it concerns upgraded devuan2 machines when lsb_release is executed with no root permission:
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux ascii
Release: ascii
Codename: n/aComparison between upgraded and fresh_installed devuan2:
I have compared the base-files package files + the script /usr/bin/lsb_release between my machines, but I found no difference.
Comparison between root and no root execution of lsb_release on an upgraded devuan2:
As /usr/bin/lsb_release imports /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py, I decided to compare the execution of its function guess_devuan_release() between root and no root execution on an upgraded devuan2:
root@upgraded_devuan2:~# python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Nov 24 2017, 17:33:09)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import lsb_release
>>> lsb_release.guess_devuan_release()
{'DESCRIPTION': u'Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)', 'RELEASE': u'2.0', 'CODENAME': 'ascii', 'OS': 'GNU/Linux', 'ID': 'Devuan'}demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Nov 24 2017, 17:33:09)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import lsb_release
>>> lsb_release.guess_devuan_release()
{'RELEASE': 'ascii', 'OS': 'GNU/Linux', 'ID': 'Devuan', 'DESCRIPTION': 'Devuan GNU/Linux ascii'}Going on deeper within that script, I found out that:
/etc/devuan_version remains buggy in devuan2 (ascii instead of 2)
Unnoticed indent error: from line #321 to #334 of lsb_release.py (lsb-release 4.1+devuan2), the function guess_devuan_release() uses mixed 2 and 4 spaces indent instead of the 4 ones used in the rest of the script
rinfo = guess_release_from_apt()
if rinfo:
release = rinfo.get('version')
if release:
codename = lookup_codename(release, 'n/a')
else:
release = rinfo.get('suite', 'unstable')
if release == 'testing':
# Would be nice if I didn't have to hardcode this.
codename = TESTING_CODENAME
else:
codename = 'ceres'
distinfo.update({ 'RELEASE' : release, 'CODENAME' : codename })Called by guess_devuan_release(), the function parse_apt_policy() of lsb_release.py executes in a sub-shell the command 'env LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy'
Then, I suspected /usr/bin/apt-cache. Indeed, it fails with no root permission:
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
Pinned packages:
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$What's broken with apt?
I reinstalled the package apt. But this makes no change.
Debugging this re-installation with apt-get -o Debug::RunScript -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Auth -y --reinstall install apt, I saw nothing interesting.
The perms and ownerships of /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* looked normal.
So as a last resort, I decided to check the execution of /usr/bin/apt-cache with strace :
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$ strace -x -e trace=open,close,read,write -o apt-cache_strace_demo.log env LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy
root@upgraded_devuan2:~# strace -x -e trace=open,close,read,write -o apt-cache_strace_root.log env LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy
root@upgraded_devuan2:~# grep "Permission denied" apt-cache_strace_root.log
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$ grep "Permission denied" apt-cache_strace_demo.log
open("/var/lib/apt/lists/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
...Never was so close to the truth:
demo@upgraded_devuan2:~$ stat /var/lib/apt/lists
Fichier : /var/lib/apt/lists
Taille : 4096 Blocs : 8 Blocs d'E/S : 4096 répertoire
Périphérique : fe00h/65024d Inœud : 1047578 Liens : 3
Accès : (0770/drwxrwx---) UID : ( 0/ root) GID : ( 0/ root)
demo@fresh_installed_devuan2:~$ stat /var/lib/apt/lists
Fichier : /var/lib/apt/lists
Taille : 4096 Blocs : 8 Blocs d'E/S : 4096 répertoire
Périphérique : 801h/2049d Inœud : 260613 Liens : 3
Accès : (0755/drwxr-xr-x) UID : ( 0/ root) GID : ( 0/ root)Obviously, the only problem that prevented apt-cache to run correctly as a no-root user, with side effects on lsb_release is a directory permission.
Then I fixed it:
chmod 755 /var/lib/apt/listsHope this can help.
Hi cynwulf!
I have just detected the script /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py is not really compatible with Devuan2, and prevents the user to access the repository settings from synaptic with the same error you have pointed:
user@devuan2:~$ synaptic-pkexec
ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 101, in <module>
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 109, in __init__
SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Devuan/asciiWith no bug fix at the moment, the workaround is to remove the package python3-software-properties.
Hope this can help.
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