Debian bookworm

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debian • linux • bullseye • bookworm

My main desktop computer at home has been running Debian bullseye for some time now. I installed firefox from unstable, which caused the whole thing to drift a bit and eventually run into problems. In particular,

sudo apt build-dep emacs

failed because some libraries were wrong, so I couldn't build Emacs 28.

Debian bookworm got an updated firefox-esr, which seems usable, so I decided to update everything to bookworm and resist grabbing anything from sid. I have sudoedit aliased to E

❯ alias E
alias E='EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs" sudoedit'

so I just ran

E /etc/apt/sources.list

and changed all the bullseyes to bookworm. Then

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove

upgraded most things to bookworm. After reboot, I still had some packages held back, so I ran

sudo apt full-upgrade

and that seems to have done the trick.

Since bookworm will become Debian 12 sometime next year, I figure I'm just jumping the gun a little.