On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:37:14 +0200 (CEST) Borden <borde...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> 17 Oct 2021, 07:16 by b...@fineby.me.uk: > > Taking note of the thread regarding updating to 5.23 in Sid, I'll be > > holding off for a few days until migration to testing is complete. > > > I'm sure this has been answered before, but this seems to be a > perennial issue wherever there's a major upgrade. Since Testing is > supposed to be free of known system-breaking errors, why can't the > packages be held back until the it's all ready? > This not only has been answered before in general -- it has been effectively discussed on this very list, only last week. As a user, you can use "apt upgrade" or "aptitude safe-upgrade". With either of these, you will not get half-system updates. If the whole upgrade is ready, you'll get it; if it isn't, you will get suggestions to either keep older versions of packages with updates, or drop the not-yet-updated packages. Then, you should choose what to do according to your taste and the selection of not-yet-updated packages. Asking for any non-stable flavor to act like stable is making the packagers' work harder, and IMO as a grateful user who is not involved in packaging, that is completely uncalled for. Hope this helps, Shai.