I think all Linux distributions will do the same: kick out the old versions.

The kicad documentation states that a project once modified can no more be read by an older version of kicad. But does that mean the design data is screwed up?

If you are very conservative and precautios, make up a VM with the older kicad version.

Anyhow: on the kicad home page I can't find any support for downloading older versions either.

Another conspiracy theory about something being bad?

I am no programmer. Do it yourself.

apt has a progress bar. Perfect for me, I am using apt since many years now, no complaints about it.

@RedGreen925 and @delgado:

Have you digested the OP's = the_edge123 input correctly?

We are on Devuan here, not on Debian. Daedalus = Stable, Excalibur = Testing!!! I am sorry, you are both on the wrong track.

@Fabien: I am pretty sure you do not have Excalibur on your PC. You are on Daedalus still. The output is correct.

You may check with a

cat /etc/os-release

When you want to upgrade to Excalibur, make sure your Daedalus is up-to-date. Then run

apt install usrmerge

Then change your sources.list to excalibur.

Some reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/releases

For Devuan stable still is Daedalus. If you want to upgrade to Excalibur, change your sources.list to excalibur instead of stable.

There will be some complaints within the upgrade process if that wasn't done.

I think that is not really true. From:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … *&x=submit

linux-headers-4.19.0-27-common - 4.19.316-1
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   amd64
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   i386
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   arm64

They are available, but not in the main section, you have to enable security!

Installed a Daedalus VM, encrypted with LVM, efi based, Lightdm and Cinnamon with German locale and Keyboard. Installation works, Lightdm is set to US keyboard, Cinnamon too. Adding a German keyboard works until reboot, then the system is back to US. Is that worth an issue? I think yes?
Edith: the screensaver login allows to switch the keyboard to German, the login doesn't.

Just pulled out my travelling laptop again.

apt update works fine w/o backports. Re-enabling the standard "deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged" backports throws a "Release file not found" error. Starngely enough it works with "deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged".

You simply may need a new version for Debian 13 Trixie.

I am using a Kyocera P6230 LAN printer with a PPD supplied by Kyocera. Before that I owned a FS-5100DN.

Just updated my laptop which is still running Chimaera for a reason, and I saw that no release file is present for backports anymore.

Why is Chimaera backports removed? Why is Chimaera different from e.g. Beowulf where backports still is present in the archive?