On Thu, 2024-12-26 at 13:52 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Thomas Anderson writes: > > Almost all the applications I use are non-debian (postfix, dovecot, > > apache, mysql, etc..) > > Why? All of those are in Debian. If you were using the Debian packages > upgrading would be easy.
To nitpick, I don't think Debian ships mysql anymore (it's mariadb instead). It might be somewhat common to install the actual mysql from Oracle's APT repository.