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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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[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they release unreleased and/or unstable software

Is this true even for the point LTS releases?

[–] echedeylr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes.

Ubuntu 24.04 is equivalent to Debian 13, except Ubuntu 24.04 was released last year.

Every Ubuntu version is based on a copy of Debian Sid, which is the unstable branch.

Eventually, they incorporate Debian patches too but keep some packages in different versions (libpng, the kernel, openssl and similar are the most I remember but they change between releases).

[–] arty@feddit.org 0 points 3 days ago

Thank you, I see what you mean. I think there’s a flaw in this logic, but I would rather not dive deeper into this topic.