Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

Greetings all;

I just installed another sata controller and 4 1 T-byte Samsung SSD's.

The controller claims to be a 15 port port expander, but only 6 are 
bonded out, and collectively show up at ata7 in dmesg.

They show up as /dev/sde/f/g/h but have not otherwise been touched.

So I thought I'd make sure I was up to date, annd possibly install some 
raid-ish stuff to prepare this array for use as /home in the bullseye 
install, but something is ay least 5000% aglay.

sudo apt update says it wants to gut much of the system and upgrade 2588 
packages. Yet my repo list looks like its normal stretch.

What is going on? Do I wind up on buster or should I kiss it all goodbye?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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