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Debian Testing broke my install just now (already fixed) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Standard apt-get update and apt-get upgrade broke just now and it was typically easy to fix. dhclient didn't bring up my wifi card so I plugged it in to bring up the network card, quick dpkg --configure -a didn't return anything so I just did apt full-upgrade at the recovery console and that fixed it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

lol, this is probably why, 12.10 just dropped

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250315

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

With btrfs I would just do a snapshot before an upgrade then restore if it broke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

this is actually the default behavior for zypper!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

gotta get through the upgrade somehow

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

For anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Debian's release process, the Testing distribution is not a release. Rather, it is a holding area for packages that may eventually become part of a release.

Some people choose to run it instead of Debian Stable in order to get more recent non-security updates to packages, with the understanding that occasional breakage is normal for Testing.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_practices_for_testing.2Fsid_users.3F

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

https://www.debian.org/devel/testing