Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 4:03 PM Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue 28 Feb 2023 at 15:35:43 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +0000, Tixy wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:16 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, then
> > > > > I ran apt update and apt upgrade. I guess I could have run apt full-upgrade
> > > > > and that probably would have worked better.
> > > >
> > > > It would have. If you looked at the release notes [1] it suggests
> > > >
> > > > # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> > > > # apt full-upgrade
> > > >
> > > > Then lists some possible issues and there remedy.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade
> > >
> > > It's also worth mentioning that in bookworm, non-free firmware has been
> > > moved to a new section called "non-free-firmware".  If you use any of
> > > that -- most people do! -- then you either need to change "non-free" to
> > > "non-free-firmware" or to "non-free non-free-firmware", depending on
> > > your specific needs.
> >
> > That's a good point. That should be stated in the wiki page at
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade .
>
> Well! Get on with it. It's a wiki.

Already done: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade

Someone should QA the change.

Jeff