Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: >   My only wish is apt is updated to say something about  the fact > that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still > provide the download/install without we having to manually > intervene. I think¹ that there are

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread R. Ramesh
The expired keys do complicate life but my understanding of the rationale is that the limited key lifetime serves as a sort of contract regarding the integrity of the files. Once a release has been archived it does not fall under that promise from the project any more and so the expired keys

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There > are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose > upgrade path. Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its