Just looking at issues with the devuan default desktop's screensave, and
its config file: ~/.xscreensaver file, posted here for the attention of
the maintainers and the interest of members of the list.

1] Obnoxious nag messages - All logins to the devuan default desktop
begin with not one but two separate nag messages from xscreensaver. The
first "warns" the user that the version is out of date. The second
"warns" the user that the sysadmin is doing a dis-service by keeping it
out of date.

2] forced config screen - after the two obnoxious nag messages, one is
forced to be confronted with the xscreensaver customization screen

3] hard-coded debian url - this was hilarious to find. In the
xscreensaver customization screen, the default option for "text
manipulation" is a URL to an rss feed at planet debian. This default
turned out to be hard-coded(!!) in THREE binaries that I found:
/usr/bin/xscreensaver, /usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo,
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-getimage.

3.1] Once the file ~/.xscreensaver is created, one can edit the url there.

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