I will mark this as SOLVED as tests have revealed that Emacs 29.4 is working flawlessy with Devuan.

Some minor problems, but as my installation is an heavy modified install, with "literate config" based on an org file, some minor problems are not blocking, they are more a stimulus to learn more about Emacs.

Only to say something, it uses:

- eglot and pylsp
- treesitter for python grammar
- plantUML for diagrams
- Latex using a TExlive plain install in /opt/texlive
- and some other highly customize things

So the complexity is high enough.

Kind regards
Carlo D.

The point is that is is a simple service install only to have grub decoupled from any other Linux distribution or OS I have installed on the hard disk.

I have usually many OS on my computer:
- a working distribution, where I do most of my work
- a play distribution, where I experiment things
- another test distribution, maybe
- A windows install

So I've resolved to use the "small debian" to manage the grub.
But i have to edit files by hand, so having a graphical install will permit to do it in a more easy way.

Kind regards

Carlo D.

Yes Andre4freedom you are right.

I'm just returning in devuan after some years of using ArtixLinux (maily for "bleeding edge" development reason), so I'm in the process of setting everything, scanner and printng has revelaed to work "out of the box"

But my past experience is that "out of the box" scanner experience if inferior in capabilities to the brother supplied drivers, at least on my MFC-L2710DW.

Kind regards

Carlo D.

Many thanks for the quick answer.

The settings about repositories should already been here, (a part for the main on the right side)

# daedalus-backports, previously on backports.debian.org
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-backports non-free-firmware non-free contrib main   
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 

what is lackig probably is the:

-t daedalus-backports

in the install part, and the use of apt.

So many thanks again.

I was "returning" to Devuan after some time on being on "Artix Linux" so probably my preferences could be biased.

I know that in Debian/Devuan the concept of "stable" has been always "peculiar" as it depends on different considerations from those adopted "upstream", like the ability for a package to build on all the different "platform", so I consider emacs 29.4 as "tested enough" as the development version is 30.x now and 29.4 is the stable version of emacs from some time.

more to come if problems will arise, or simply to make the post Solved, asa I can continue my migration effort.

Kind regards

Carlo D.