On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:

> Several years ago, I started a project called 'oss-qm' which aimed to
> collect maintenance branches for lots of packages, which solve the
> common problems in a generic way (instead of all the dist specific
> patches), so distros can base their branches on that. The problem then
> wasn't systemd (which handn't been invented yet), but poor upstream QM.

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> Anybody here interested in that ?

being heavily based on git, it could be well compatible with Devuan's
architecture. We'd certainly support the project. It could be
interesting to make it first and foremost compatible with GUIX
packaging, which is something we do want to support in the long term.

ciao