upgrade to Buster the moment its launched?

[sjukfan]

I'm usually on Testing but wait a few weeks after launch before I upgrade, hoping for the worst bugs to be identified until then. Same thing if I was running stable. I mean, there will always be a couple of new bugs after release so one can as well wait a bit.

[Soul Singin']

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./crap-post.sh --comment "this poll could be better" --force

Two of my three systems are still running Debian Wheezy and my laptop is loving Debian Buster.

[PhilGil]

Put me in the already upgraded camp. I try to wait, but I always get impatient and upgrade some time between the hard freeze and release day.

[sickpig]

brave ones all of you who have upgraded, i have setup stretch just the way i like it. i fear the upgrade might change or break something. stretch would have to be pried from my cold dead fingers before i let it go

[Soul Singin']

i fear the upgrade might change or break something.

It will. There are a lot of changes in the file hierarchy. For example, Buster could not find my Brother scanner until I copied the Brother libraries to a different directory. And all of the packages that depend on Qt4 and libmariadbd18 have to be rebuilt, so Amarok will not be in Buster, nor will kodi-pvr-hts.

stretch would have to be pried from my cold dead fingers before i let it go

I still have two systems running Wheezy. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[sickpig]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

^ the very words i live by

how do ensure security updates for wheezy though?

[Soul Singin']

how do ensure security updates for wheezy though?

There are no security upgrades for Wheezy. But that's not much of an issue for my two Wheezy machines. One is a television server (for over-the-air broadcast TV). The other is my phonetop, which I use as an alternative desktop, but rarely use to browse the internet.

For everything else, I have a laptop running Debian Buster.

[sickpig]

sounds good, thanks for sharing! i plan to stick with stretch until they provide security updates after that a sad bye bye

[Head_on_a_Stick]

i fear the upgrade might change or break something.

Backup the system before upgrading then. But you already have a full backup, right?

If you're using btrfs then take a snaphot, boot into the snapshot and upgrade that to test.

[sickpig]

Buster says ^^

[eor2004]

I'll wait a couple of months before upgrading to Buster just in case!

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Only 55% of the respondents in this poll have any balls

[GarryRicketson]

Your right:

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garry% bc
38+4+13
55
quit
garry%


I all ready have it on a VM , so no need to upgrade when it is released/launched.

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garry@debian:~$ neofetch
       _,met$$$$$gg.          garry@debian
    ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P.       ------------
  ,g$$P"     """Y$$.".        OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) x86_64
 ,$$P'              `$$$.     Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) p
',$$P       ,ggs.     `$$b:   Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64
`d$$'     ,$P"'   .    $$$    Uptime: 7 mins
 $$P      d$'     ,    $$P    Packages: 973 (dpkg)
 $$:      $$.   -    ,d$$'    Shell: bash 5.0.3
 $$;      Y$b._   _,d$P'      Terminal: /dev/pts/0
 Y$$.    `.`"Y$$$$P"'         CPU: QEMU Virtual version 2.5+ (1) @ 2.992GHz
 `$$b      "-.__              GPU: Vendor 1234 Device 1111
  `Y$$                        Memory: 66MiB / 963MiB
   `Y$$.
     `$$b.                                           
       `Y$$b.
          `"Y$b._
              `"""

garry@debian:~$

 

[Head_on_a_Stick]

@Garry: bc is bloat!

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E485:~$ echo $((38+4+13))
55
E485:~$

[sickpig]

Only 55% of the respondents in this poll have any balls

yet just one deek