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

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi NoisyCoil,

Your fix removed the dpkg-revert, thanks for letting us know.

Regards,
Jeroen Diederen

NoisyCoil schreef op 2025-08-14 18:31:
> 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/