I correct a mistake near the end of my original email.  'apt-get dist-upgrade'
is what causes systemd, samba, and qemu to get installed.  And just to be clear,
I did 'apt-get upgrade' first, then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' later in the process.
This is how I am accustomed to doing Debian upgrades.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "rowens" <row...@ptd.net>

> If there's a better place to report this, let me know.
> 
> On a fully updated Wheezy system, I installed
> debuan-baseconf-0.6.4+devuan3_all.deb.  That sets up the Devuan repositories
> and then puts some instructions on the screen.  When you select OK, those
> instructions disappear.  It would be nice if they remained on the screen.
> 
> Anyway, I removed the Debian sources and then ran 'apt-get update'.  I got
> normal output plus several lines like 'ignoring provides line with 
> depcompareop
> for package php-psr-http-message-implementation'.  'apt-get update' did not
> correct this, as the on-screen messages suggested it might.
> 
> I then ran 'apt-get upgrade' and after some upgrades it stopped with errors
> about 'bsdmainutils is not configured yet'.  'apt-get install bsdmainutils' 
> got
> me past that, but that's something that probably should be addressed.
> 
> Another 'apt-get update' still produces the 'ignoring provides line' warnings.
> 
edit: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tells me that systemd and systemd-sysv are going 
to be
> installed.  Additionally, for some reason samba is going to be installed
> (nothing against samba, but I don't need it on this system).  Various qemu
> packages are also going to be installed for some reason.
> 
> If somebody wants to try fixing these issues, I can re-test.
> 
> -Rob
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