Thanks Go Linux for this post. I didn't follow thhe battle inside 
Debian; therefore it's interesting to read a point of view on the story.

     I like the jokes about the Fork posted  in the replies. I see 
Devuan on the clear side of the Fork.

     About init in general, and first of all about systemd, I always 
thought there was an abuse in the terminology and in the implementation, 
which I would like to explain below:

     Well, there are two pecularities in process #1:

     a) it is the first process started by the kernel, and, as such, it 
is in charge of starting all the necessary services.
     b) it adopts the orphans

     These two things are very different and I am amazed that one can 
call "init" the process in charge to adopt the orphans and eventually 
re-launch them, and moreover shut down the system.

     Init proper, when it has finished starting the system, should 
exec() another application, in charge of maintaining it alive; and this 
other should exec() yet another one for shutdown. There is no reason to 
put all these delicate jobs in only one application. exec() does not 
change the pid.

     The Fork be with Devuan, yeah!