For every hour, you could put a script in /etc/cron.hourly.
For running something upon login, you would probably put it in some file that gets sourced at login or in your desktop's startup apps. (e.g. .bashrc, .profile, .xsettings, or other. I'm not sure what's most appropriate.)
For running something when you boot up, you could put commands in /etc/rc.local.

I didn't know yt-dlp was in the repo. The backports version is the same as what's in ceres/sid now, so there's nothing new to backport.

I keep a copy of the script in my user's bin/ and I have a script to wget the latest version from git. Apparently, that script is not needed - you should be able to run yt-dlp -U to update to the latest.

amd64 devuan desktop-live isos (xfce) in qemu with 3G ram.

Beowulf:

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3002         273        1963          15         766        2561
Swap:             0           0           0

Chimaera:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            2987         343        2004          15         639        2482
Swap:              0           0           0

Daedalus:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            2979         557        1761          14         830        2422
Swap:              0           0           0

Each release uses more resources. Run ps_mem.py to see that each program uses more resources in each release. I've been watching this for over 20 years and it's consistent.

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)