Hello,
After updating m68k Debian SID to the latest version in QEMU and copying the resulting filesystem to a Centris 650, I noticed that I could telnet or ssh to the system, but the console had the wrong keymap. This can be fixed by deleting /etc/rcS.d/S04keyboard-setup.sh, or it can be renamed to /etc/rcS.d/s04keyboard-setup.sh, which is what I recommend for the unsupported Debian SID installation on m68k, if possible.
Of course, the init scripts are only relevant for sysvinit. Please note that I'm not trying to re-open a sysvinit vs. systemd discussion. Suffice it to say that I've found systemd to be unusable on real m68k hardware (including a 25 MHz Centris 650 and a 40 MHz Mac IIfx). If systemd works well enough for you, then that's great. I do request that sysvinit continue to be available as a package in m68k Debian SID.
On a side note, I've also noticed that "apt get update" and "apt get upgrade" are also too slow to be usable on real hardware, implying that most people who want to use Debian SID on real hardware must do their updates on an emulator, such as QEMU, and be comfortable copying filesystems from QEMU to real hardware. Maybe that's to be expected with any modern operating system, but I think it's also possible that the limitations of real hardware are not seen in faster emulators, so developers are not as aware of, or concerned with, performance issues that are only noticeable using real hardware.
That said, as an experienced non-developer user, I appreciate all of the considerable effort that everyone has put in to making modern GNU/Linux distributions work on old hardware. Thank you!
-Stan Johnson