Hi,

Since I have been away for the last few weeks I would like to ask
whether udev's replacement is ready for Devuan 64 bit. I tried:

apt-get -s remove udev

which resulted in the following text output. I am concluding this
means udev is still an essential dependency that cannot be removed
yet.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
linux-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
makedev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bluetooth bluez fuse initramfs-tools linux-image-3.2.0-4-rt-amd64
ntfs-3g testdisk udev upower xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager-plugins xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-qxl
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
The following NEW packages will be installed:
makedev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 41 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Remv bluetooth [5.23-2]
Remv bluez [5.23-2+b1]
Remv testdisk [6.14-3+b3]
Remv ntfs-3g [1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u2]
Remv fuse [2.9.3-15+deb8u2]

[...]

Remv xserver-xorg-video-tdfx [1:1.4.5-1+b2] [xserver-xorg-video-trident:amd64 ]
Remv xserver-xorg-video-trident [1:1.3.6-2+b2]
Inst makedev (2.3.1-93 Devuan:1.0/stable [all])
Conf makedev (2.3.1-93 Devuan:1.0/stable [all])