On 12/02/2021 13:02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +0000, pioruns2019 wrote:
Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid
and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what
you're doing.
I suggest to install sid from the scratch, if you want to have sid. If
you don't want to have sid, revert back to buster.
Also, sid doesn't have debian-security updates, this entry is invalid.
Most of this is correct, except for the part about installing sid
from scratch. That's not a thing. If one wants to run unstable, one
installs the current stable release, and then upgrades to sid.
That's what OP tried and failed already.
The probem here is that the OP attempted to mix stable and unstable,
cherry-picking packages from unstable. This WILL NOT WORK. Ever.
Of course , agreed.
If you want to cherry-pick higher-numbered packages from post-stable
on a stable system, use backports. Never install a binary package
from a future release.
That's what I do - running Stable + backports on my server. Rock solid.
