Re: Upgrade testing to unstable but debian_version and os-release not changing to sid

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:46:49 (+0100), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 17/08/2021 02:21, Robbi Nespu wrote:
> > I have been using debian testing (bullseye) for 1 year (plus) and I want
> > to use sid as my daily driver.
> > 
> > I change source.list to sid
> >     $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> >     deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> >     deb-src http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> > 
> > do the update and upgrade ...
> > 
> >     $ sudo apt-get update
> >     $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> >     $ sudo apt-get autoremove
> >     $ sudo reboot
> > 
> > when booted, I checked systemd os-release and debian release still on
> > bullseye codename
> > 
> >     $ cat /etc/debian_version
> >     11.0
> > 
> >     $ cat /etc/os-release
> >     PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
> >     NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> >     VERSION_ID="11"
> >     VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
> >     VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
> >     ID=debian
> >     HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/";
> >     SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support";
> >     BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/";
> > 
> > Hurmm.. that is unexpected, are this is normal or did I missed something?
> > 
> A similar result occurred here: another update/upgrade/reboot sequence
> fixed it.

So what does your system print out for the above commands?
And what's the version number and date of your base-files….deb
that's different from 69992 Apr 10 20:55 base-files_11.1_amd64.deb?

Cheers,
David.