Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

[pioruns2019 <pioruns2019@gmx.com>]

On 12/02/2021 13:02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +0000, pioruns2019 wrote:
> > Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid
> > and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what
> > you're doing.
> > I suggest to install sid from the scratch, if you want to have sid. If
> > you don't want to have sid, revert back to buster.
> > Also, sid doesn't have debian-security updates, this entry is invalid.
>
> Most of this is correct, except for the part about installing sid
> from scratch.  That's not a thing.  If one wants to run unstable, one
> installs the current stable release, and then upgrades to sid.

That's what OP tried and failed already.
> The probem here is that the OP attempted to mix stable and unstable,
> cherry-picking packages from unstable.  This WILL NOT WORK.  Ever.

Of course , agreed.

> If you want to cherry-pick higher-numbered packages from post-stable
> on a stable system, use backports.  Never install a binary package
> from a future release.


That's what I do - running Stable + backports on my server. Rock solid.