On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:53 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@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 .

Would saying "Bookworm and later releases ... <info on non-free
non-free-firmware>" be an accurate statement?

Jeff

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