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.
I love Debian (and linux)
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mox@lemmy.sdf.org · 20 pts · 1y
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
cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
With btrfs I would just do a snapshot before an upgrade then restore if it broke.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
gotta get through the upgrade somehow
dirtycrow@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
this is actually the default behavior for zypper!
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
lol, this is probably why, 12.10 just dropped
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250315