Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus > accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems > to have become stuck at 12.7. > > I have a second machine on which I installed a fresh Bookworm a few > weeks ago. This has point release 12.9. > > I have replaced /etc/apt/source.list on the 12.7 machine with that from > the 12.9 machine, done > > apt-get clean > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > > but no new packages are installed.
You don't need to change your sources inside a major version. The minor version is effectively invisible. Please tell us the exact and actual output from running: # apt update and, after that, # apt list --upgradable -dsr-