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Manny wrote:
> The Bookworm release notes instruct users to “upgrade” to the latest point
> release of Bullseye prior to upgrading to Bookworm:
>
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-to-latest-point-release
>
> When following that link, the article says to do an “apt update” then
> neglects to tell users to perform the upgrade.
Moreover, we have "This should only be necessary in specific situations." in
this chapter appendix A [1], while we recommend to upgrade to the latest point
release of stable in 4.2.2 [2].
We should remove that phrase completely.
A patch for above two issues is attached (against the bookworm branch; any
such changing needs to be ported to master/trixie as well).
Holger
[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ap-old-stuff.en.html#old-upgrade
[2]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-to-latest-point-release
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diff --git a/en/old-stuff.dbk b/en/old-stuff.dbk
index b1c734e7..287c80c1 100644
--- a/en/old-stuff.dbk
+++ b/en/old-stuff.dbk
@@ -2,22 +2,21 @@
https://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd; [
%languagedata;
%shareddata;
]>
Managing your system before the upgrade
This appendix contains information on how to make sure you can install or
-upgrade packages before you upgrade to . This should only be
-necessary in specific situations.
+upgrade packages before you upgrade to .
Upgrading your system
Basically this is no different from any other upgrade of you've been
doing. The only difference is that you first need to make sure your package
list still contains references to as explained in .
@@ -73,20 +72,31 @@ not. It is possible to downgrade packages, but that is not covered here.
If you've made any changes, save the file and execute
# apt update
to refresh the package list.
+
+Performing the upgrade to latest release
+
+To upgrade all packages to the state of the latest point release for
+, do
+
+
+# apt full-upgrade
+
+
+
Removing obsolete configuration files
Before upgrading your system to , it is recommended to remove old
configuration files (such as *.dpkg-{new,old} files under
/etc) from the system.
