All I know is I was ready to go through the process to go from 12 to 13 and their documentation was full of disclaimers saying that it’s not officially supported.
Can you show me this documentation? Debian famously takes great care to ensure a good upgrade path with thorough instructions, like herehttps://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/upgrading.en.html
I’m 99% sure I was going with their official documentation, which you linked just there.
I can’t speak for what I read or how I interpreted it ~6 months ago, other than to say I understood upgrading was not supported and I was SOL that mine broke.
No, I’ve never used “sloppy backports” (as the only warning of lack of support I can currently find lists as a problem) and I knew that back then too, so that wasn’t the issue.
Isn’t Debian pretty clear that they don’t support upgrades and it’s likely to break if you try?
No, you may be thinking about combining repos from different releases aka frankendebian? That isn’t supported. Upgrades are definitely supported.
All I know is I was ready to go through the process to go from 12 to 13 and their documentation was full of disclaimers saying that it’s not officially supported.
I did my best, and it broke.
Can you show me this documentation? Debian famously takes great care to ensure a good upgrade path with thorough instructions, like herehttps://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/upgrading.en.html
I’m 99% sure I was going with their official documentation, which you linked just there.
I can’t speak for what I read or how I interpreted it ~6 months ago, other than to say I understood upgrading was not supported and I was SOL that mine broke.
No, I’ve never used “sloppy backports” (as the only warning of lack of support I can currently find lists as a problem) and I knew that back then too, so that wasn’t the issue.
So I should just reinstall my system every two years? What is this, Windows?