On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 08:33 -0500, B Stack wrote:
> Of course this is related to usrmerge in our upstream distro, and is
> solved once you `apt-get install usrmerge` which was blocked for me
> until I also ran:
>
>     sudo rm -f /lib/udev/rules.d/99-libsane1.rules
> /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules /lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb
>
> For some reason. Now of course these steps don't actually fix
> netcat-traditional itself for a non-merged system, but it does allow
> the package to finish installing.

You should not be forced to install usrmerge in a Devuan system. That package
will be forked by Devuan.

FYI: You can always revert the usrmerge installation with dpkg-fsys-usrunmess!