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 >
