Lorenz,

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 05:23:03PM +0100, Lorenz via Dng wrote:
> and I wonder if gdm3 works on Devuan. If yes, I want to add support
> for it in runit-services package.
>
> I can't test on my system (I'm running Debian unstable) because it's
> not installable [1] but I think Devuan forked gdm3,

Not that I am aware of[1].

Certainly gdm3 used to work[2], but version 49.0.1-1 started to declare 'Depends:
libnss-systemd'.

Libnss-systemd itself used to declare 'Depends: systemd' and so was indirectly
banned by amprolla in Devuan. However, to my surprise, I see:

systemd (259-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Luca Boccassi ]
  * Downgrade depends to recommends for IPC endpoint of respective libnss
    modules. Minimal container images might want the libnss modules to
    resolve users, but without the IPC endpoints which will be running on
    the host and which will be reachable anyway via IPC.

...

-- Luca Boccassi <bluca@???> Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:08:45 +0000

So, currently libnss-systemd *is* present in Devuan[3], although I doubt it will
'work': I imagine that still requires systemd IPC on the container host.

Mark

[1] https://git.devuan.org/devuan/gdm3

[2] I suspect excalibur and older is OK

[3] https://pkginfo.devuan.org/libnss-systemd