I still don't entirely get the point of Devuan. I put Debian buster on a low-RAM embedded box, and since systemd eats up precious RAM I'd rather keep, I just switched to OpenRC with
apt install openrc && apt purge systemd
If I needed it, Debian packages elogind as well.
Rebooted and it worked perfectly. Now, I get that Debian doesn't really support OpenRC[0] (or sysvinit), and it could break in horrible ways when bullseye goes stable, or get removed entirely, but... I don't see why we need a fork before that happens? It seems like it's a lot of work to maintain a distro fork, when I feel like that effort could be more productively redirected to stronger maintenance and advocacy of OpenRC and/or sysvinit in Debian itself?
[0] Debian's openrc package hasn't been updated in a little over a year, which is indeed concerning. sysvinit does seem to be more actively maintained, though.
Rebooted and it worked perfectly. Now, I get that Debian doesn't really support OpenRC[0] (or sysvinit), and it could break in horrible ways when bullseye goes stable, or get removed entirely, but... I don't see why we need a fork before that happens? It seems like it's a lot of work to maintain a distro fork, when I feel like that effort could be more productively redirected to stronger maintenance and advocacy of OpenRC and/or sysvinit in Debian itself?
[0] Debian's openrc package hasn't been updated in a little over a year, which is indeed concerning. sysvinit does seem to be more actively maintained, though.