Andrea Borgia wrote: > It's more like an issue with the libraries than the apps themselves: the > apps in d-m are not in Debian and won't directly be affected. However, > shared libraries in Debian might be upgraded to different versions pulled > in from d-m and that's where the problems will come from during an > upgrade.
# dpkg --get-selections before upgrade (is in the upgrade notes AFAIR) and then need to reinstall packages that are kept back. when reinstalling they pull the right dependencies. Indeed it is a bit of work ... like 20-30min, but upgrade is done every 3-4y, so ... regards