Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?
On 2023-11-14 16:34:18 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2023-11-14 23:54:31 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > On 14/11/2023 19:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > To my surprise, reportbug asks me to use bullseye-backports
> > > > (= oldstable-backports) on my bookworm (= stable) machine:
> > >
> > > Might it happen that you have bullseye-backports in apt sources.list?
> >
> > No, and this is actually the complaint of reportbug, which wants
> > me to add it.
>
> That is NOT what it said, at all.
>
> What it said was "Hey, I looked on the internets and I saw this other
> kernel that might be newer than the one you're running, so maybe you
> wanna check this other kernel first and see if it's still got the same
> bug, before you report this."
>
> But it's NOT actually newer than yours. It's the same as yours. It just
> has a bigger, fancier version string because it's a backport. So it
> kinda looks newer if you are a not very bright software construct.
The base number is the same, but I would have thought that this other
kernel might have additional patches.
> That's why I suggested ignoring the message.
Then why does reportbug mention the bullseye-backports kernel?
> > > apt policy linux-image-amd64
> >
> > linux-image-amd64:
> > Installed: 6.1.55-1
> > Candidate: 6.1.55-1
> > Version table:
> > 6.5.10-1 500
> > 500 https://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
> > 500 https://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
> > *** 6.1.55-1 900
> > 900 https://ftp.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
> > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > 6.1.52-1 900
> > 900 https://security.debian.org/debian-security stable-security/main amd64 Packages
>
> You are not running a "bookworm (= stable)" system. You're running
> unstable. This doesn't change my analysis, but it's something you should
> be aware of.
Yes, because the plan is to upgrade the machine to unstable.
But I'm trying to solve the touchpad issue first.
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