On 2023-11-14 16:34:18 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-11-14 23:54:31 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 14/11/2023 19:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > To my surprise, reportbug asks me to use bullseye-backports > > > > (= oldstable-backports) on my bookworm (= stable) machine: > > > > > > Might it happen that you have bullseye-backports in apt sources.list? > > > > No, and this is actually the complaint of reportbug, which wants > > me to add it. > > That is NOT what it said, at all. > > What it said was "Hey, I looked on the internets and I saw this other > kernel that might be newer than the one you're running, so maybe you > wanna check this other kernel first and see if it's still got the same > bug, before you report this." > > But it's NOT actually newer than yours. It's the same as yours. It just > has a bigger, fancier version string because it's a backport. So it > kinda looks newer if you are a not very bright software construct.
The base number is the same, but I would have thought that this other kernel might have additional patches. > That's why I suggested ignoring the message. Then why does reportbug mention the bullseye-backports kernel? > > > apt policy linux-image-amd64 > > > > linux-image-amd64: > > Installed: 6.1.55-1 > > Candidate: 6.1.55-1 > > Version table: > > 6.5.10-1 500 > > 500 https://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages > > 500 https://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages > > *** 6.1.55-1 900 > > 900 https://ftp.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > 6.1.52-1 900 > > 900 https://security.debian.org/debian-security > > stable-security/main amd64 Packages > > You are not running a "bookworm (= stable)" system. You're running > unstable. This doesn't change my analysis, but it's something you should > be aware of. Yes, because the plan is to upgrade the machine to unstable. But I'm trying to solve the touchpad issue first. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
