This test is on a non-gui system.

'apt-get update'

'apt-get upgrade'

'apt-get remove libsystemd-login0' # Not sure why this was installed
on my Wheezy system. This operation also removed dbus.

'wget http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-baseconf/devuan-baseconf_0.6.4+devuan3_all.deb'

'dpkg -i devuan-baseconf_0.6.4+devuan3_all.deb'

enter 'jessie' in place of the default value of 'ceres'

remove debian sources from /etc/apt/sources.list (if this is a
required step, why not have the devuan-baseconf deb comment out
these sources?)

'apt-get update'

'apt-get install devuan-keyring'

'apt-get update'

'apt-get upgrade'

'apt-get update' -- just to be sure

'apt-get dist-upgrade' # db5.1-util is kept back. Many new
packages are installed, including dbus, samba, and qemu-kvm.

'aptitude search ~i | grep systemd' shows libsystemd0 is
installed, which was not present on my Wheezy system. I
understand this is relatively benign, but I'm reporting it
to be complete.

The machine boots without errors, and 'lsb_release -a' shows
that I am running Devuan.