Debian 11 "bullseye" released [LWN.net]

Debian 11 "bullseye" released

Posted Aug 17, 2021 15:17 UTC (Tue) by clump (subscriber, #27801)
In reply to: Debian 11 "bullseye" released by pabs
Parent article: Debian 11 "bullseye" released

Debian old-timer that typically puts "stable" in /etc/apt/sources.list here. I didn't receive a prompt when running either `apt` or `apt-get` with an unmodified sources.list on a new Debian 10 install. Did I misunderstand your comment?

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Debian 11 "bullseye" released

Posted Aug 17, 2021 16:50 UTC (Tue) by docontra (guest, #153758) [Link] (1 responses)

If sources.list is *unmodified from the installation* (using an official installer image), it should use release codenames (i.e., buster for Debian 10) for stable releases and late testing images instead of stable/testing. In that case, you wouldn't get that message. On the machines I manage that I've yet to migrate to Debian 11 I didn't get any notification, but I did get a similar notification stating that bullseye had become the stable release. Personally, I prefer to keep the distro codenames in sources.list instead of using stable to ensure the distro version upgrade is on my terms (regarding timing), but to each their own :)

PD: Note that the security repo has migrated on debian 11 from stable/updates to stable-security ; luckily for me, on all the machines I've upgraded so far that was the biggest hurdle.

Debian 11 "bullseye" released

Posted Aug 18, 2021 1:26 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Please note that if you have default-release or pinning setup, you will need to adjust your config to account for the new security suite name:

https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-no...

If your APT configuration also involves pinning or APT::Default-Release, it is likely to require adjustments as the codename of the security archive no longer matches that of the regular archive. An example of a working APT::Default-Release line for bullseye looks like:

APT::Default-Release "/^bullseye(|-security|-updates)$/";

which takes advantage of the undocumented feature of APT that it supports regular expressions (inside /).

Debian 11 "bullseye" released

Posted Aug 18, 2021 1:23 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

If you really had stable (instead of buster) in your sources.list (new installs usually get buster not stable), then when Debian released bullseye, apt/apt-get update gives an error due to stable changing from buster to bullseye, and that might not be what you expected. With apt you get an interactive prompt that lets you ack these changes, with apt-get you just get an error and can't update until you pass the --allow-releaseinfo-change option.