On April 29, 2015 1:19:25 PM GMT+01:00, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:31:16AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 05:16:42PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> >
>> > acpid and acpi-support-base have already been removed from tasksel.
>>
>>
>> We already forked tasksel, so, it should not be an issue for us as
>long
>> as those two packages are maintained, or we will need to fork both
>acpid
>> and acpi-support-base too.
>
>Indeed. Is there a mechanism in place to watch for this kind of thing?

the Devuan SDK facilitates auditing of changes and import of packages at any version through git branching. that is explicitly planned to facilitate the task you are mentioning.

>There might be a lot of packages dropped if Debian decides that systemd

indeed, and we are prepared for it.

after all, we really are a fork. we mean it.

ciao