I've a debian wheezy.

I want to install Devuan on a new shiny 3 gByte disk, keeping the old wheezy disk for backup.

This is the plan:

1. add users and groups and force them to the same uid

2. copy /home/*

3. find a list of installed packages and install them anew

Is this viable?

Alternatively  I could copy the old disk verbatim and upgrade, but that means that maybe some bitrot copies over too.
If I report problems with devuan, that must not be old problems, so I don't like that option.
(Problems I currently have:
   editors don't work in trn
  hack doesn't save properly
)

Groetjes Albert