I thought reportbug was fixed, but I don't know for sure. I always use email to report bugs.
Send email to bugs@devuan.org
Subject line should be descriptive
First line of bug should have:

Package: <packagename>

And then the body of the email with explanation of the problem.

It's also not a bad idea to report the problem here first, in case it's not really a bug.

Instructions are here: https://bugs.devuan.org/Reporting.html

I did two installs today with devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230206_amd64_netinstall.iso.

One had an encrypted root partition and unencrypted /boot partition.
The other had encrypted lvm with unencrypted /boot partition, via Guided Partitioning in the installer.

I see no delay in shutdown with either system.

I can still update cryptsetup-modified-functions and build it for ceres/daedalus if there are cases where it's needed.
@devujan: Please put the final version you want me to use in a code box to make it easy for me. (so I don't screw it up.) Thanks.

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I imagine that a Debian-wide community repository would not exclude software that requires systemd. One for Devuan would need to exclude things that won't install on Devuan. If you're running Debian, you will probably be able to use anything that's in the crapton repo.

There does not seem to be a metapackage in debian for the ukui desktop. It looks like you have to install the parts separately. I tried a few that I thought would pull in the main parts of the desktop, but they did not. (ukui-session-manager, ukui-sessionserver, ukui-desktopserver).

I would expect to see a package called ukui, or ukui-desktop and probably task-ukui-desktop, too. Didn't find them in sid or at salsa.debian.org.

You could install the ukui parts after an install of the base system without a desktop, or you could install the base system and drop to a shell before exiting the installer, and install the parts in a chroot. (the installer makes this easy). My preference is to reboot into the installed base system first, and then add other things. Seems to be safer and easier in the long run.

Another helpful tip - you can avoid installing Recommends with:

apt --no-install-recommends install <package>

Redshift will install without geoclue this way. (Edit: and without avahi-daemon.)

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

You'll also need to recompile the kernel to support aufs. (or use one that does support it)

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand what you're trying to do.

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After update, it's gone.

$ apt policy libcgmanager0
libcgmanager0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)

I don't understand what you are saying here, but it sounds wrong.

It is not mandatory for the installer to format the chosen partition(s) but it is mandatory for them to have a filesystem if you want them to contain files, and formatting is the default setting.

You can partition and format before running the installer and tell the installer not to format. That's a checkbox in the options menu of the graphical installer and it's a config file setting in the cli installer.

You have the choice to install the entire system to one partition, or you could optionally have separate partitions for /boot and/or /home.

The installer doesn't know what to do with your old home or the user configs it contains. It's up to you to figure out any conflicts caused by mismatched or missing config files caused by sharing a home between two different operating systems.

It shouldn't matter that your partition was mounted, because you should not be selecting that pre-existing home partition during the installation. Please be aware that the default action is to format any partitions you select. If you select a partition with data you want to keep, you will lose it.

I built live-boot packages with the fix and put them here for people to use until debian builds them. I really hope we don't have to fork live-boot for this.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/

live-boot, live-boot-initramfs-tools and live-boot doc all from 2022-12-16.