Re: approx in debian 12
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:28:51PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:18:02PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > Should we report an error regarding the approx man page which states:
> >
>
> Whatever release of approx I have running on the Debian-9 machine
> works flawlessly, but I do hope to upgrade the Debian version on that
> machine. I suppose I could reinstall on my planned replacement, and
> see whether approx still works with Debian-11, or go back to
> Debian-10, if necessary.
>
Just on this: please _don't_ go backwards in release version unless this
is an isolated machine that's never going to connect to anything else -
Debian _should_ improve with each version and certainly there are
security updates and bug fixes with each point release.
Debian 9 is out of main security support and even out of LTS - https://wiki.debian.org/LTS .
In order to update that, you'd need to update to 10 then 11, then 12.
Potentially, build a replacement machine with 12 and work on it, then
perhaps decommission the 9 and reformat to 12?
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
> RLH
>
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