Walter,

This is Debian bug #1106830[1]. It was fixed in sysvinit/3.15-4, but that version
is not in excalibur.

$ ~/src/devuan/devscripts-devuan/src/leda initscripts
initscripts | 2.88dsf-59.2+devuan2 | jessie             | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386
initscripts | 2.88dsf-59.3+devuan2 | ascii              | mipsel
initscripts | 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 | ascii              | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el
initscripts | 2.93-8+devuan1       | beowulf            | amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el
initscripts | 2.96-7+deb11u1       | bullseye           | all
initscripts | 2.96-7+devuan2       | chimaera           | all
initscripts | 3.00-1+devuan1       | chimaera-backports | all
initscripts | 3.06-4               | bookworm           | all
initscripts | 3.06-4devuan3        | daedalus           | all
initscripts | 3.08-3~bpo12+2       | bookworm-backports | all
initscripts | 3.14-4               | trixie             | all
initscripts | 3.14-4devuan1        | excalibur          | all
initscripts | 3.15-6               | forky              | all
initscripts | 3.15-6               | sid                | all
initscripts | 3.15-6devuan1        | freia              | all
initscripts | 3.15-6devuan1        | unstable           | all

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1106830

Mark