Recalling the experience with moving Chimaera backports to the archive, I think we need to wait for a decision from the Debian side and then spend some time persuading the Devuan team to fix their "unique" repositories

Right now, the Devuan package list is simply unreliable. Yes, one could blame Debian, but that doesn't solve the problem. "We don't guarantee anything to our users" and "We don't care about our users" are not the same thing.

Unfortunately, simply adding a snapshot isn't the solution. Before the move to the archive, PHP packages and several others were updated; these are rebuilt on the Devuan side. Just as with Tomcat, once the organizational issues are resolved, I might have to persuade the maintainer (via a bug report) to rebuild the package.

I have working deb11 server:

root@elar:~# apt update
Сущ:1 http://archive.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Сущ:2 http://archive.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Сущ:3 http://archive.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease
Сущ:4 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20260903T220410Z bullseye-security InRelease
Пол:5 https://packages.adoptium.net/artifactory/deb bullseye InRelease [7507 B]
Сущ:6 https://security.freexian.com/extended-lts bullseye InRelease
Сущ:7 https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix-tools/debian-ubuntu bullseye InRelease
Сущ:8 https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/7.0/debian bullseye InRelease
Получено 7507 B за 2с (3918 B/s)
Чтение списков пакетов… Готово
Построение дерева зависимостей… Готово
Чтение информации о состоянии… Готово
Все пакеты имеют последние версии.
root@elar:~# uname -a
Linux elar 5.10.0-46-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.262-1 (2026-07-31) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@elar:~# cat /etc/debian_version
11.11
root@elar:~#

However, neither the developers nor the user community have a solution for Devuan yet.

But you are right: one can manually build a repository from snapshots and rebuild specific packages. After all, that is precisely why we value the distribution.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors … m%2F#00001 - last two posts

https://gist.github.com/ishad0w/7665cde … 13802e61e4

I understand that it is very difficult for devuan team to merge this repo https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/deb … 3T220410Z/

Debian repo is in archive now. Devuan merged repo points not to archive but to main updates pool - http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main

BUG is on the devuan side. It’s really sad that the developers can’t even properly move a release to the archive.

I’m not demanding anything, and I realize that no one owes me anything, but I’ve been pointing out the problem and its causes for some time now. It would be great if someone responded.

No changes. I think, it is not a "mirrors not being in sync" problem. All debian packages are in archive repository but devuan source is trying to merge them from deb.debian.org.

I use virtualization and understand how to gain experience independently. I asked the question because I wanted to learn from the community's experience.

Thank you. I tried to make a report and send a copy to maintainer.

Unfortunately, my major packages, for example tomcat and nodejs are broken, outdated and/or misconfigured in Devuan.

There is no devuan archive mirrors and current morror (hosting provider?) blocks some networks (not all) in my country. I have no access to mirror from Universiry network and have no problems in home network.

user@host:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib non-freer

There are no problems with adoptium java repo:

user@host:~# ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 мая 29 14:57 adoptium.list

There was no any changes here:

user@host:~# ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  82 мая 29 14:34 00CDMountPoint
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40 мая 29 14:34 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 июн 21  2021 01autoremove
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 122 мая 29 14:36 01autoremove-kernels
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307 мар 28  2021 20listchanges
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 июн 10  2021 70debconf

Unfortunately yes.

This message was translated:

Reading package lists… Done
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.devuan.org/merged/dists/chimaera-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en Connection timed out finally [IP: 116.202.138.216 80]
E: Some index files could not be downloaded. They were ignored or older versions were used instead.
root@ojs:~#

I can not update apt sources

Sorry, you seem to have a silly idea how Devuan works
Ok... I seem to have a silly idea.... but - https://archive.devuan.org/merged/dists … backports/