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

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