Excalibur is unlikely to be "settled" until Debian Trixie goes stable . . . if even then. Proceed with caution as there will likely be more bumps in the road..

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Dragom or Dragon?

@Altoid . . . Perhaps a less verbose and redundant writing style would solve the problem. After all Devuanistas do tend to be minimalists! 

Just incoherent ramblings which we are watching carefully . . .

I doubt you will get an argument from anyone in the Devuan camp . . .

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Welcome to the forum!

Testing (Excalibur)  and unstable are very unreliable at this time partly due to the usrmerge. Have a look at the announcement:
UsrMerge Status: Testing/Excalibur and more

Other issues are also discussed on this very forum.

@Altoid . . . beowulf has been archived so you'll need to change your sources.list though I understand there are still some unfinished bits.

I have always thought that packages on that list were actually BANNED ie not installable in Devuan.  Packages that are forked or native will have a reference to devuan in the filename but I'm not sure of the exact formula. Someone else here will.

@quickfur . . . Three posts in less than 5 minutes. Really? WHY when you could have edited your first post?

/me scratches head . . .

Has to be gremlins in the machine . . .