Do the install with all the packages it complains about it appears the versions required are there so.

apt install -s libspa-0.2-modules=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 libpipewire-0.3-0=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 pipewire-audio=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 libspa-0.2-bluetooth=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 pipewire-alsa=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 pipewire=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 libpipewire-0.3-0=0.3.65-3+deb12u1 wireplumber

This should get it installed, once the -s is removed from the line for the simulation,  say yes to the downgrade of the 1.2.7-1.1b~c71b67b6~1 version packages. Which the policy command gives no clue on how that junk got installed in the first place. Certain not from a Debian related source as that is not a package format used by them for the version number.

Edit: If you remove the two packages at the version 1.2.7-1.1b~c71b67b6~1 then try to install the pipewire it will most likely just install as that is what is messing up the install. Without them present there is nothing to stop the install from happening normally.

Well it would be nice if the assumptions was we have clearly provided the user with the information needed to get it done. If they do not wish to avail themselves to using it, sorry about their luck. That includes those too god damn lazy to read the install notes that point out what is needed.

I would go with garbage tools being used by clueless programmers who have not one single idea how to produce good lean code.

Yes it is, though hardly shocking when you take piece of garbage software out of the mix with its tentacles into everything slowing it down.

No that means your initramfs was not properly generated on install as that is what you fixed to boot the machine and is what allows the machine to boot by using the modules contained in it in the first place. Such as the file system modules that allows the partitions to be mounted and everything else needed to run the machine like the network card, usb, sound, video....

Edit: Now I think more if it had been wrong kernel you would have got the grub error and been dropped to its shell to be given the opportunity to load the proper kernel and related items by its command line to boot the machine.

I do believe he talks about the bug I faced as well whereby the ENTIRE login screen is white making it totally useless for the purpose. You can still type the password and login allowing you the chance to change the theme to fix it. And that must be one hell of a security feature on a multi-user system not allowing you to choose the user to login in with, certainly eliminates anyone using the system for a total security win...

I use this with my laptop.

root@9600k:~# cat bin/lenovo_etc_network_interfaces 
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first card in the system added for devuan method of networking
# the pre-up is for stopping the annoying delay when the network cable is not connected.

auto eth0
    allow-hotplug eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ip link set eth0 up && sleep 1
        pre-up [ $(cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier) -eq 1 ]

Forget where I got it when searching on the problem but it works perfectly every time it boots.

Time for you to use the LABEL=???? method of mounting partitions, I would go with SWAP possibly for the ????. Then you need change nothing in the /etc/fstab if needing to reformat you just need to ensure you set the label every time done with the swaplabel command.. Now I check the man page online it says you can just set the UUID using it too, so nothing need change.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/swaplabel.8.html

The Debian wiki has all the details, no clue on a mbr drive if that is what it is.

https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall

So what is the problem with running grub from the booted system to easy and uncomplicated to do?

Yes, the never ending quest continues on, as always with these things... Good to see we have got it sorted for you Tweedlewise.

So have I, it has been nearly fifty years since I touched my first computer, a TRS-80 at the local Radio Shack,  and all I can go by is my experience with them. And that has been mine with discs since that happened a good more than dozen or so years ago I have not bothered with the junk anymore since that incident. If all of the 20 drives in those four machines go tits up at once then I loose it all. Well not really as I have single large one less than year old back drive for all of it. As it is I have lost one drive in the last who knows how many years, it was probably a decade since the oldest in them machines is from around 2014, it was newer just under three year old one that went. Less than month from the warranty going on it so did not cost a single cent to replace. I am rather shocked that more have not gone from seeing all the complaints online about it. Though like all of these problems people seem to have that never affect me, it makes me wonder just what the hell they are doing that causes the problems. That is my experience with electronics, they just work if they survive any length of time. They usually die off nice and quick if they are garbage. Oh and the local Walmart was what I was thinking about when saying good luck buying them, no where in sight there. Or anywhere else for that matter. I do not live in large city perhaps they stock them there. All my electronics are protected by good quality UPS/surge protector/line conditioner so no bad electrical signals can get to them. That could have something to do with their longevity.

That means two installers built using the same method only changing the brand name and sources should have identical results when used. The Devuan installer obviously does not use the same method as Debian to build it as it fails to install with the Ventory used. The other question you ask about means exactly what I said. I will say again if you cannot understand it. Devuan is the only ISO I have ever tried to install from with Ventoy that has not worked, all of the other dozen or so tried have done it perfectly fine. It is the outlier in all of them not some common problem with it you try to portray.