You are like a 6 year old child pushing limits.  And then when the hammer drops you whine and think you are a victim.  My advice would be to just stop arguing.  It serves no purpose but to illustrate your willfulness and depth of misunderstanding.  You are very clever at twisting things to support your ideology but please don't embarrass yourself further because you really have no idea what you are talking about.

Here . . . I'll stop it for you . . .

AFAIK, security patches come directly from Debian.  Devuan does not touch 99% of Debian packages.

I'm beginning to wish this forum had an ignore option . . .

JSM . . . please take it elsewhere.  This is basically a technical forum with this space to socialize.  Please don't pollute it with the insanity that is invading all corners of the web.  Especially since you are contributing nothing of value to Devuan.

Please familiarize yourself with this forum's (almost) No Code of Conduct

Your inappropriate post has been moved to Admin.

Country Codes are deprecated and don't work properly.  Use http://deb.devuan.org instead.  That should fix it.

Follow upstream updates on Debian.  Here are two that I found with a simple search.  You can join their mailing lists for the ones that suit you:
https://www.debian.org/News/2021/
https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates

All the updated Debian packages will be pulled in through the Devuan repos.

Yes and no. It just is what it is.  If that's not OK, you're in trouble . . .

Exactly.  And never the 'twain shall meet.  Religious zealotry doesn't work very well.  As the old adage says so wisely . . . you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

I've been around Linux for a while.  My first Linux installation (Redhat) was done at a local Linux "installfest" almost 20 years ago. That was years before Fedora or Ubuntu etc..  Sadly, most LUGs have gone the way of the dodo including mine in a city awash in tech.  Times changed and getting people together at a specific time and physical location no longer worked.  Then older members died one after the other. Then the LUG mailing list died in part because there were so many diverse options popping up online.

In all the years since then, not one of my Windows- or Mac-using friends has taken an interest in Linux despite their dissatisfaction with what they were/are using.  And these are well-educated, intelligent, professional people.  The one victory I had was to get a sensitive mail list off of google and on to riseup but it took years before they figured out why it was a good thing to do.

I am old.  I am tired.  The world spins on in its own way.

But hey, everybody needs a hobby so go for it.  Experience is the best if not the only teacher . . .

@Altoid . . . perhaps "uninformed" would have been a better choice than "stupid".
It seems that jsm has never read Christopher Barry's Open letter to the Linux World. Perhaps he will understand Linux better if he chooses to do so.  Alert . . . not PG 13 . . .

Freedom is a double edged sword so actions should be chosen with care.

Welcome to the forum starbreaker!  Just one quick note about sources.list designations in Devuan.  Since we are not always in sync with Debian releases, it is safer to use Codenames rather than Suite names.  I not sure that "unstable" is filtered for banned packages so ceres might be safer.  It's all explained on this page.

Nice to see that you're using gemini and your sig is oh, so true.

I don't know about any financial reimbursement to Devuan but there is a "Devuan Merchandise" link to that site on https://www.devuan.org/os/explore in the "Community" links.  There were plenty of these shirts at the Devuan Conference in 2019.

Seems like a snake oil scam to me.