Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote:

> If Devuan is going to have a brilliant future it is going to disenfranchise 
> itself from Debian.  Being forever a Debian without systemd will keep it in 
> the backseat, vulnerable to all the odd decisions and arguable development 
> directions that Devuan/FD are going to take.

In the long term, Devuan is likely to slowly diverge from Debian - and 
hopefully will gather support from Debian devs/package maintainers fed up with 
the Debian shenanigans. it's even possible to foresee a time when Devuan 
overtakes Debian and Debian ends up as a derivative of Devuan - but a long time 
off I think.
In the meantime, there simply are not enough Devuan devs to simply dump Debian 
as an upstream. At the moment, most packages available in Devuan are unmodified 
Debian packages - there simply is no justification for re-inventing loads of 
stuff that doesn't need re-inventing, it would be a waste of effort. In the 
meantime, the devs the Devuan project does have can tackle those packages that 
need work - mostly de-systemdising broken packages and making substitutes for 
some bits.

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