Hello Nuno,

Thanks a lot for your comment.

Yes. I am aware that Devuan is not ready yet. My question was about the
preparation to switch from Debian to Devuan, whether I should stay on
the testing packages (and keep updating weekly), downgrade to wheezy or
even downgrade to squeeze.

But I need the most recent version of packages. So last weekend I
decided to stay on testing packages and pin *systemd* to Pin-Priority:
-1. That is with the hope that all my important packages that depend on
the versions of systemd related packages prior to last weekend, will
still work in the next few months with weekly package update. If some
packages would require new systemd related packages (so fail to be
updated later on), then I will pin those packages to their previous
versions. As the first Devuan release will be close to Debian jessie, I
think I will not get any serious problems. But who knows the future?

What is not clear to me is that, what will happen to udev or all systemd
related packages that are currently required by nginx-extras and
php5-fpm for instance? Will I need to do certain tweak or will switching
the repository to Devuan and do dist-upgrade be enough to strip anything
related to systemd?

Kind regards,

Anto

On 23/02/15 13:59, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Anto <aryanto@???> wrote:
>> No comment anyone?
> Actually, i didn't see your first post...
>
> For Debian, you could try, as a hack, to install either and older
> wheezy or squeeze, pin stuff and upgrade. There are also docs laying
> around for stippping systemd from wheezy to varying degrees of
> success.
>
> For Devuan, it's still in an alpha state. I am not an authority on the
> matter, but i'd recommend you wait until it's stable before using it
> in VPSs.
>
> HTH,
> Nuno
>