On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:16:10AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:

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>
> In other words: If you want to have your de-systemd-ised package in
> jessie, at this point you should build for
> jessie-proposed-updates. This means that you should get the latest
> available version in Jessie (in this case it might be 2.3.4-5+deb8u2)
> and prepare a "jessie-proposed-updates" branch.
>

BTW, there is already a project for openvpn under devuan-packages:

https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/openvpn/

But it does not seem to have been worked on for jessie. You should get
in touch with the developer there and agree with them how to proceed,
to avoid duplicating work.

HND

KatolaZ

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