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> Our plan is to release Jessie, but without systemd.
>
> To make it clear that's what we are doing, what could be simpler
> than to use the name Jessie for our version of Jessie.
>
> Instead of me talking about Debian Jessie, I'd just talk about Devuan
> Jessie.
>
> The most obvious difference will be that apt-sources mentions devuan
> repositories where it now mentions debian repositories.
>
> If we go our own way after that, we need not retain the same release
> names.
>
> -- hendrik
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95% of the packages are going to be the same, anyway.

I think it would be nice for everyone involved (Debian AND Devuan users
and
developers) if the *package* names were distinguishable. So that if
there's a problem,
you can see whether it's the Debian or Devuan version that's installed.

Something similar was done by Marillat with his Debian Multimedia, IIRC:
it made a lot of difference in functionality, if you had
ffmpeg version 6:0.8.16-1 installed (patent-crippled USA-friendly Debian
version) or
the version
ffmpeg version 8:1.0.6-dmo2 (deb-multimedia.org, why couldn't Debian
have kept "non-US")

where I suspect that C.M. used the letters "dmo2" to distinguish it from
the
default, Debian version.

Pretty soon it's going to make some difference whether you have
cups 1.2.3-4+devuan installed, or the vanilla cups 1.2.3-4

So: an important question:

What should be the suffix that tells the user that the Devuan version of
a package
is installed?

("devuan" sounds about right)