[tde-users] Re: TDE Devuan repository glitch

Not sure what caused this weirdness, but I thought it best to make a report, just in case it actually matters. I was trying to find a desktop calculator that I actually like, and among those that I downloaded was kcalc-trinity, which I've used before. But when I downloaded my list of packages and dependencies, I kept getting an error message: Err:1 http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-testing chimaera/main amd64 kcalc-trinity amd64 4:14.1.0~s244-0debian11.0.0+12 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] E: Failed to fetch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-testing/pool/ma in/t/tdeutils-trinity/kcalc-trinity_14.1.0%7es244-0debian11.0.0%2b12_amd6 4.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 37.205.10.16 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? After trying apt-get build-dep, and then apt-get update, which did not improve my results, it occurred to me to try changing my sources.list from Devuan Chimaera to Debian Bullseye; and presto! worked like a charm. Some may recall an earlier discussion (when Leslie was attempting a new Devuan installation), I posited my opinion that there is probably no difference between these packages when it comes to third-party repositories (such as Trinity itself). From what I can tell, third-party developers thus far do not create special Devuan packages, and most do not even acknowledge the existence of Devuan, so Debian packages work just fine. For the Trinity repositories, I assume that the link to Chimaera packages is just a redirect to the Debian packages. Otherwise, this would be a reduplication of effort and server space, If this is wrong, I expect to be corrected by somebody who knows better. However, this seems like proof of concept, since the package was available by changing to the Debian links. I do know that Debian and Devuan packages definitely should not be used interchangeably. When Devuan was first forked, this was almost true, except for a few systemd-dependent items, but now they have diverged more and more. These changes do not appear to have prompted third-party developers to create packages specifically for Devuan, but I am sure that this will be changing. It could be that this package alone is missing, or that there is a problem with the link to this server, or that redirection is failing, or whatever. But I did try several times, with the same bad result, and after changing the lines in my sources.list for the Trinity repositories, everything worked like normal. By the way, I am using the PTB repositories now, following Slavek's recent recommendation. Bill