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Bug#619521: marked as done (upgrade-reports: "dist-upgrade" -using DVDs cannot be completed)

Your message dated Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:55:37 +0100
with message-id <43b04122-a47b-31d6-d220-2540e920dc6b@debian.org>
and subject line upgrade report for EOL Debian release
has caused the Debian Bug report #619521,
regarding upgrade-reports: "dist-upgrade" -using DVDs cannot be completed
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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619521: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619521
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Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

I have submitted the report (details below) before.  But, because I am new to
"reportbug, I incorrectly selected to report it under #609566.  As a result,
my posting was filed and ignored.

So, here is a copy of the posting - with additional information:

I attempted to use the DVDs of the Official release of Debian 6.0 by
following the routines described in the release notes - chapter 4.  

Everything worked correctly until I got to Section 4.4.6.

"apt-get dist-upgrade" found 607 packages to be upgraded, 753 packages to be
newly installed and 70 packages to be removed.  It invited me to load the
first DVD, made all the changes to packages that were on that DVD and then
asked me to insert the second DVD.

This command could not be carried out - for the following reason:

When the dist-upgrade started the sym-link "/cdrom -> /dev/hdc" was correct.
But during the that stage of the "dist-upgrade, the mounted drive had been renamed from /dev/hdc to "/dev/sr0".

Since "/cdrom" still pointed to "/dev/hdc", the drive carriage could not be
opened.
 
Since I had undertaken the "dist-upgrade" from a virtual terminal
(Ctl+Alt+F1), I switched to a second terminal and did a clean shutdown.

The upgraded system could be booted but was unuseable - full of broken
packages and unmet dependencies.

-- System Information (before the failed dist-upgrade and free from problems):
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Dear reporter,

Thanks for taking the time long ago to submit your upgrade report. I'm
closing these reports now because the Debian releases they were reported
against have reached their end-of-life (some long ago).

Unfortunately it's possible that the report I'm now closing may still
have relevant information for the current release (bullseye). If you
believe that's the case, don't hesitate to reopen the bug, retitle it
and provide further information and it will be seen during the current
freeze period of Debian.

Paul

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