The Red Strings Club (wikipedia) has definitely hit a string in me..
Not in terms of gameplay (it has some boring minigames) but in the atmosphere it creates.
Alas it's 386 binary and also depends on an old lib :libcrypto.so.1.0.0 and libssl.so.1.0.0 that i found them in a old ubuntu repo archive.
I have a screenshoot in my toot in mastodon with a link to detailed instructions.

Has anyone else played it?

I have xfce as my main desktop and i wanted to try xmonad.

sudo apt-get install xmonad

I log out and in the login screen with F1 i choose as session xmonad.
But when i log in i see the same devuan default background with the text (xmonad session)
but nothing happens.
It's supposed to be able to launch a terminal with Alt + Shift + Enter.

System:
  Host: enoush2o Kernel: 5.15.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
    Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)

Having noticed that a binary .deb control file doenst contain tags and neither dpkg knows about them , and
seen that apt-cache do , and that (as it was pointed to me in the irc)  /var/lib/apt/lists$ emacs deb.devuan.org_merged_dists_chimaera_main_binary-amd64_Packages  has tags i wanted to dig a little deeper on how that tags get there.

Could someone explain with a broad and generic view how devuan uses and 'merges' debtags?

Having spotted a minor issue with package gccintro i wanted to report it.
In irc #devuan i was told that this package is debian one.
So as we see in Devuan Package Information on gccintro
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … ntro=1.0-4
the filename contains a link to http://deb.debian.org/ .

Using reportbug in my devuan system i sent the report that appeared here:
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=654
And in the Devuan Bug page on gccintro
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/pkgreport.c … e=gccintro
it says:

It seems to me that in the case of a debian package from withing a devuan system
if i wanted to report issues i should to by email only and not from reportbug.
If that is the case i wonder if it would be more convinient reportbug to do that for me
(sent that email).

In my sources.list i have:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main

I noticed in http://deb.devuan.org/ a merged subdir and
a dists subdir.
Since merged also contains a dists subdir what is it's use?

Also if http://deb.devuan.org is an 'alias' to http://pkgmaster.devuan.org
why my sources.list contains both?

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
deb-src http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free

Initially i thought that is searches package names (by that i mean 'Package' field's value).
But it also searches Description field.
But as we can find by an example as :

$ apt-cache --names-only search "^ff.*"
ffado-dbus-server - FFADO D-Bus server
ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets
ffado-tools - FFADO debugging and firmware tools
....
sfftw-dev - library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms
sfftw2 - library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms

$ apt-cache show sfftw2
Package: sfftw2
Version: 2.1.5-4.2+b1
Installed-Size: 554
Maintainer: Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: fftw2-single
....

it's obviously searches the 'Provide' field too.

$ man apt-cache
search regex...
           search performs a full text search on all available package lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see regex(7). It searches the package names and the
           descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out the package name and the short description, including virtual package names.

  --names-only, -n
           Only search on the package and provided package names, not the long descriptions. Configuration Item: APT::Cache::NamesOnly.

But

$ apt-cache show librust-pango-sys-dev
Package: librust-pango-sys-dev
Version: 0.9.0-2
Installed-Size: 158
Maintainer: Debian Rust Maintainers <pkg-rust-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: librust-pango-sys+default-dev (= 0.9.0-2), librust-pango-sys+dox-dev (= 0.9.0-2), ......

and i think that i could search librust-pango-sys+default-dev  but:

$ apt-cache search 'librust-pango-sys+default-dev'

returns nothing

So if apt-cache search 'Provides:' why would that fail?