Perhaps you could add it to the init-system-helpers package via Devuan's git store if the Debian maintainer will not cooperate. I think that's where it should go . . .

Ceres is always fluid and unstable. It never freezes. Please take a look at our release information.

Didn't Hyperbola morph into Parabola. Or was it the other way around? This thought just from a vague memory . . .

@alphalpha . . . that is a good question and thank you for asking it.

The fact that this thread still exists is not a vote of approval. Enforcement would just create more hostility. Instead, the OP was given an opportunity to learn to self-regulate and participate constructively in civil society . . . and failed. Seems he has made his choice. He has not visited here since his meltdown 2 days ago . . .

No . . . the technology is questionable. Always has been. The road it is going down is not progress.  It is human hubris. I have been watching carefully since the mid-90s and can find nothing there that I would knowingly touch . . .

That is a matter of perspective.

There can be no "offense" when none is taken . . . Internal reaction to external stimuli is a CHOICE. Humans are notoriously poor at understanding this which is why our species is hopelessly mired in ignorance and conflict.

Yes, the Devuan "pond" has the most amazing fish swimming in it. On this we can agree.

But even if the internet had not taken the predictable turn that it has, there would be similar problems to distress us. Again, it is a CHOICE how to respond to them. Distress is not useful. Action is. Those of us here have made a choice and doing a pretty good job of it . . . 

Please stop wasting Devuan resources on your therapy.

I prefer not to be a monkey behaving for the machine 24/7 . . . I would rather unplug . . .

I seem to be more of a fossil than you. I do not have a working cell phone. Only one which has never had a working account for 911 emergency use only . . .

The web is deranged because it magnifies the reality that our species is deranged with greed, hatred and delusion.  I vote for extinction . . .

I surrender to the chaos of the universe and the human mind . . . 

If you had used the netinstall iso and chosen the "expert install" option you would have had more control of what was installed. The netinstall uses a slightly modified version of the Debian installer. The "live" iso uses the "refractainstaller" which only copies the files of a default Devuan desktop installation to your installation media.

You can read descriptions of the available Devuan installation media here.

Official Devuan policy from https://www.devuan.org/os/install: