I was thinking about updating the jessV-nox isos, since they're more than six months old, but instead, I started on a devuan-based refracta. I've got i386 and amd64 VMs from a devuan debootstrap install. I'll soon replace the debian-based nox isos with devuan-based isos.
Since they have No X, it was easy-peasy to have no systemd or its libraries. You add a desktop, you're on your own. I'm not sure exactly what else has to be done before devuan can eliminate libsystemd0, but until then, I may add additional nosystemd repos to sources.list, and leave them commented out, in case someone wants to use them.
@dzz: is there anything in the exegnu repo that isn't in angband?