Bug#1111039: Upgrading a system installed with Debian live from Bookworm to Trixie does not change /etc/os-release due to dpkg diversion
On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 21:53, NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> On 14/08/25 19:55, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > if there really isn't any
> > live-related package left installed, I'll put it in
> > init-system-helpers - please double and triple check if there's
> > anything else that is live-related.
>
> Confirmed, `dpkg -l '*live*' shows` we have no live-* packages installed
> in any of our rootfs's, probably because they were never installed in
> the first place: `lb config --system normal` does not create a
> `config/package-lists/live.list.chroot`, which should be the package
> list responsible for installing them in live systems.
Ok, and are we 100% sure that a workaround to fixup existing
installations via a package is actually needed? Given the remediation
is just:
dpkg-divert --quiet --local --remove --no-rename /etc/os-release; apt
install --reinstall base-files
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