Re: Fwd: Bug#1111039: Upgrading a system installed with Debian live from Bookworm to Trixie does not change /etc/os-release due to dpkg diversion
On 14/08/25 00:33, NoisyCoil wrote:
I'll try and see if I can work around it for future installations to
minimize the number of affected users, before it gets fixed in live-build.
The issue is fixed (or rather, worked around) in new installations.
Old trixie installations will not be affected in a meaningful way before
2027 (they will still declare themselves to be version 13.0 instead of
13.x after the first trixie point release, but this is no big deal), so
I'll wait and see what fix is proposed by live-build.
As for old testing installations, testing becomes forky effective today
with an update of base-files to version 14 [1,2], so they are already
affected. To fix this issue manually in testing, one can execute
```
sudo dpkg-divert --local --remove --no-rename --divert
/etc/os-release.debootstrap /etc/os-release
sudo apt-get install -y --reinstall base-files
```
I hope the fix for trixie, when implemented, will propagate to testing
too, so this is unnecessary. Again, let's see what happens.
Cheers!
[1]
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1653113/accepted-base-files-14-source-into-unstable/
[2]
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1655190/base-files-14-migrated-to-testing/
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