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Re: Xorg devuan forks

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:39:10 +0000

grunchy wrote:

i wonder, will the same mod be made to the xlibre packages?

There are xlibre packages that are especially made for Devuan.

Re: Xorg devuan forks

dummy@example.com (grunchy) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:10:38 +0000

They were forked so as to add seatd as alterantive to logind for device mediation.

thanks for this. good to know it is not directly systemd related. binding X11 to systemd did not make any sense to me, but i forgot about [e]logind.

i wonder, will the same mod be made to the xlibre packages?

Re: Xorg devuan forks

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:48:30 +0000

They were forked so as to add seatd as alterantive to logind for device mediation.

Re: Xorg devuan forks

dummy@example.com (blackhole) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:13:46 +0000

There seems to be a dependency for xserver-xorg-core on "libsystemd0".

Not sure what the issue was with xserver-common.

Xorg devuan forks

dummy@example.com (grunchy) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:22:19 +0000

i just did an update and two Xorg packages were included: xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core

all the X11 packages i have installed (devuan excalibur, kde) are maintained by debian (Debian X Strike Force) except for the two packages above, which are forked by devuan (Maintainer: Devuan Developers).

does anybody know why these two packages need to be forked?

is debian adding systemd hooks into these packages?

are these packages already systemd-ised when debian gets them?

this is not causing any problem, just curious.