supusr wrote:

Could I change these sources somehow to perform a conversion to devuan ascii?  If so, what would the process be?

I don't think it's possible to go from stretch to ASCII.  The upgrade feature was only intended for going from Debian Wheezy or Jessie to Devuan Jessie.  I think ASCII will require a new install.

Discussion here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=606  Why not download from here https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/  ?  Be careful with third party repos . . .

Thanks golinux
Don't worry, I'm well aware of potential issues of backporting or mixing repos/distros. I currently use Ascii because in Debian I've always used the "testing" branch, and in my sources.list there are only the auto.mirror.devuan.org lines + the local dir with some debs I build from upstream source (eg Avidemux and some other which are only on deb-multimedia.org and thus not available in Debian). I was just curious about the additional repository listed in sources.list.d/devuan.list and its role, but now having seen it cited in the discussion on dng about apulse somehow clarified it to me.

Cool, anyway for adding keys of this repo to cite:

https://software.opensuse.org/download. … oud-client

For Debian 8.0 run the following as root:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ivaradi/Debian_8.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nextcloud-client.list 
apt-get update
apt-get install nextcloud-client

You can add the repository key to apt. Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information). To add the key, run:

wget -nv http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ivaradi/Debian_8.0/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
apt-get update

Welcome aboard.

That bit of info about GPT & Grub not liking each other is useful info; there is someone trying to install another distro on an old machine, & that could be their problem. If I come across their post again, I'll mention it.