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Bug#1111039: Upgrading a system installed with Debian live from Bookworm to Trixie does not change /etc/os-release due to dpkg diversion



Hi,

Quoting Luca Boccassi (2025-08-14 16:48:15)
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 07:15, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
> <josch@debian.org> wrote:
> > Also: this is just addressing how to fix the problem going forward. The more
> > pressing fix (I think) is to think about how to fix existing installations
> > which have the wrong /etc/os-release because of this.
> >
> > Somebody (and not me within the next few days because I'm attending my
> > brother's wedding on the weekend) would have to come up with a clever postinst
> > script to clean up the mess and then get that into the next point release and
> > hope that users uprade their Bookworm before upgrading to Trixie...
> 
> This is not clever but does the job:
> 
> if dpkg-divert --list /etc/os-release | grep -q os-release.debootstrap; then
>   dpkg-divert --quiet --local --remove --no-rename /etc/os-release
>   rm -f /etc/os-release
>   ln -s ../usr/lib/os-release /etc/os-release
> fi

thank you!

> However, the main problem is where to have it - I just checked a calamares
> installation, and there's no live-* packages unfortunately.
> 
> Is there any calamares-specific package that is installed in these rootfses?

I cannot confirm. Did you install using calamares from a Debian Live CD of
Bookworm?

I have these live-* packages installed on my disk after installing from Debian
Live using Calamares:

live-boot, live-boot-doc, live-boot-initramfs-tools, live-config,
live-config-doc, live-config-systemd, live-task-base, live-task-gnome,
live-task-localisation, live-task-localisation-desktop, live-task-recommended,
live-tools

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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