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All the troubles with Debian upgrade (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by arty@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So a new major version of Debian has been released, and now I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version. I don't want to rush to conclusions like "Ubuntu has money for better quality assurance". I can easily come up with explanations for why these statistics can be skewed, like "Ubuntu-loving plebeians do not come to complain to elite Lemmy users about their puny problems". I'm curious what you think?

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've been doing debian upgrades without significant issues. With debian 13 I find I'm getting some deprecation messages from python and I have had to make some small code patches to fix them. I see that as more of a python issue than a debian issue.

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's where most of my 'issues' come from when upgrading an old debian.. upstream version changes to major software packages (python, php, even apache 1.x to 2 back in the day) that require some manual intervention

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Of course it will be like that with any distro.

[–] arty@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

Sure, this is fair!

Regarding this release, do you see more posts about it, compared with others?