(Sorry Hendrik for the double post, but I replied to you personally, and
not the list)

> Has it perhaps acquired ties to systemd?

That is most probably why the Devuan team made the initial effort of
recompiling it, yeah.

I was merely wondering why that effort had since stalled.
Upstream sources cut? Now-unsolvable set of dependencies? Mere lack of
(human) resources to trigger compilations/debug?

Side question: how a non-developer like me can help?

Bernard Rosset
https://rosset.net/