Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm), IBM System z

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                 

           

                

             

      

                 

              

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Contents

1 Introduction 1

                                      

                                      

                                         

2 What’s new in Debian 12 3

                                        

                                              

                                       

                                

                                    

                                    

                                   

3 Installation System 7

                                    

                                   

4 Upgrades from Debian 11 (bullseye) 9

                                         

                            

                                      

                                 

                                       

                            

                          

                              

                                         

                                  

                                   

                                        

                                   

                                   

                                  

                                

                         

                                  

                                       

                                      

                                      

                                      

                                      

                                   

                                 

                               

                                          

                                      

                                     

                           

                                     

                                     

                                      

                                      

                

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                                       

                                  

                                          

                                     

                                    

                                

                                 

                                        

                                   

                                           

                                  

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                                   

                     

                             

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                                    

                        

                                    

                          

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                     

                                  

  /usr                              

       libcrypt1                

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                                

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                                               

                                           

                                       

                                             

                                          

7 Glossary 37

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CONTENTS

A Managing your bullseye system before the upgrade 39

                                     

                                     

                               

                                  

B Contributors to the Release Notes 41

Index 43

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Chapter 1

Introduction

              



              

                



           https://www.debian.org/releases/

bookworm/releasenotes



Note that it is impossible to list every known issue and that therefore a selection

has been made based on a combination of the expected prevalence and impact of

issues.

               

                 

          

1.1 Reporting bugs on this document

                

       

               

            https://bugs.debian.org/

  release-notes            https:

//bugs.debian.org/release-notes          

                



             

            

1.2 Contributing upgrade reports

               

             https://bugs.debian.

org/   upgrade-reports          

    

gzip

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         

            dpkg   

  /var/lib/dpkg/status  apt      /var/lib/

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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1.3. SOURCES FOR THIS DOCUMENT

apt/extended_states            

        /var/lib/dpkg/status  /var/backups

     script    

  apt    /var/log/apt/term.log   aptitude    /var/

log/aptitude



You should take some time to review and remove any sensitive and/or condential

information from the logs before including them in a bug report as the information

will be published in a public database.

1.3 Sources for this document

                docbook-xsl

 xsltproc       dblatex  xmlroff    

         Debian Documentation Project      

 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/     

                 

      https://www.debian.org/doc/vcs

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Chapter 2

What’s new in Debian 12

  https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBookworm      

2.1 Supported architectures

         

   i386    amd64

   arm64

   armel

     armhf

   mipsel

    mips64el

    ppc64el

    s390x

              

    https://www.debian.org/ports/

2.2 Archive areas

               

    

    

             

         

              

           

        https://www.debian.org/

vote/2022/vote_003             

              

           

                

              

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CHAPTER 2. WHAT’S NEW IN DEBIAN 12 2.3. WHAT’S NEW IN THE DISTRIBUTION?

 

        non-free  non-free-firmware 

               

     main   non-free-firmware  contrib 

non-free              main 

non-free-firmware  contrib  non-free

     

2.3 What’s new in the distribution?

                

                

                

                

               

            

2.3.1 Desktops and well known packages

             

               



         

      

     

          

Package Version in 11 (bullseye) Version in 12 (bookworm)

  

  

    

  

  

     

   

 

 

  

  

  

     

      

 

    



    



  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

  

   

  

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CHAPTER 2. WHAT’S NEW IN DEBIAN 12 2.3. WHAT’S NEW IN THE DISTRIBUTION?

Package Version in 11 (bullseye) Version in 12 (bookworm)

  

  

  

2.3.2 More translated man pages

       man      

               

           

systemd       

   man          

  manpages-lang           

dpkg-reconfigure locales

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2.3.3 News from Debian Med Blend

                  

 shiny-server            

  R              

     

                

              

 

             med-*

                 https:

//blends.debian.org/med/tasks           

  

2.3.4 News from Debian Astro Blend

               

             

                

  

       openvlbi      

astap  planetary-system-stacker        

                

  

     python3-extinction python3-sncosmo python3-specreduce

 python3-synphot         python3-yt  python3-sunpy

                

            topcat

     https://blends.debian.org/astro      

 

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Chapter 3

Installation System

               

             

                

 https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/debian-installer/

               

 

/doc/install/manual/language/index.html

        https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/debian-installer/

index#errata        

3.1 What’s new in the installation system?

                

             

                

              

https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/

3.2 Container and Virtual Machine images

          https://hub.

docker.com/_/debian             

 

             

https://app.vagrantup.com/debian

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Chapter 4

Upgrades from Debian 11 (bullseye)

4.1 Preparing for the upgrade

              

                

    

4.1.1 Back up any data or conguration information

                 

                

                 



            /etc /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/

apt/extended_states    

$ dpkg --get-selections '*' # (the quotes are important)

   aptitude              /var/lib/

aptitude/pkgstates

          /home    

                

                

                   

                 

      

               root

  su  sudo      

              

4.1.2 Inform users in advance

                

   ssh             



            /home   

                 

         

4.1.3 Prepare for downtime on services

                 

                 

              

    

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.1. PREPARING FOR THE UPGRADE

               

                

              

               

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     

             

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   

                

             

                

              

 

4.1.4 Prepare for recovery

                 

              

          

                    

          

       ssh          

                  

                

                   

      

        rescue mode    

                 

               

        https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/

installmanual      https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/

FAQ

                    

          https://www.debian.org/CD/live/  

              chroot    

   

4.1.4.1 Debug shell during boot using initrd

 initramfs-tools     

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        

                  

           

           /dev     cat

/proc/modules   dmesg        dmesg   

                 echo

$ROOT             

         exit         

                  

        

4.1.4.2 Debug shell during boot using systemd

                  

                  

systemd.unit=rescue.target    

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                     

           

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                   

                     

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         panic=0    

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.2. START FROM “PURE” DEBIAN

    systemd.unit=emergency.target     

                 

         

# mount -o remount,rw /

            debug-shell.service 

                     

     systemd.debug-shell=1     systemctl enable

debug-shell            

               

   https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/



4.1.5 Prepare a safe environment for the upgrade



If you are using some VPN services (such as tinc) consider that they might not be

available throughout the upgrade process. Please see Section4.1.3.

               

        screen      

              

4.2 Start from “pure” Debian

               

              

                 

            

               

 /etc/apt/sources.list         /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ 

      https://manpages.debian.org//bookworm/apt/sources.

list.5.html                



4.2.1 Upgrade to Debian 11 (bullseye)

            

$ cat /etc/debian_version

           https://www.debian.org/releases/

bullseye/releasenotes        

4.2.2 Upgrade to latest point release

                

           



CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.2. START FROM “PURE” DEBIAN

4.2.3 Debian Backports

  https://backports.debian.org/        

              

               

      

            

               

              

      



While regular Debian Backports are supported, there is no clean upgrade path from

sloppy (https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index4h2)

backports (which use APT source-list entries referencing bullseye-backports-

sloppy).

             

             

https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

        https://wiki.debian.org/Backports

4.2.4 Prepare the package database

                 

      aptitude  synaptic      

             

            bullseye    stable  bookworm 



4.2.5 Remove obsolete packages

                

               



4.2.6 Remove non-Debian packages

                

apt  apt-forktracer              

                

$ apt list '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(Debian)))'

$ apt-forktracer | sort

4.2.7 Clean up leftover conguration les

              

             

       

# find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*' -o -name '*.ucf-*' -o -name '*.merge-error'

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.2. START FROM “PURE” DEBIAN

4.2.8 The non-free and non-free-rmware components

           non-free-firmware   

      

4.2.9 The proposed-updates section

     proposed-updates          

               

4.2.10 Unocial sources

                 

              

                

                

  

    unocial       are   

                

    

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             

 

4.2.11 Disabling APT pinning

                

            /etc/apt/preferences

 /etc/apt/preferences.d/             

           https://manpages.

debian.org//bookworm/apt/apt_preferences.5.en.html

4.2.12 Check gpgv is installed

  gpgv                gpgv1

              

      

# apt install gpgv

4.2.13 Check package status

                 

                

              

$ dpkg --audit

             aptitude   

 

$ dpkg -l | pager



# dpkg --get-selections '*' > ~/curr-pkgs.txt

     apt

# apt list --installed > ~/curr-pkgs.txt

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                  

         

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.3. PREPARING APT SOURCE-LIST FILES

                 

      

$ apt-mark showhold

                  

           

     apt    

# apt-mark hold package_name

 hold  unhold     

                    

    

4.3 Preparing APT source-list les

          /etc/apt/sources.list

   /etc/apt/sources.list.d/     bookworm    

  bullseye

                

                  

               

            bullseye bookworm   

   oldstable stable testing unstable       

                   

                 

                   

   

               

   

         https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/

               bookworm

   testing  stable

          https://lists.debian.

org/debian-security-announce/         

   

4.3.1 Adding APT Internet sources

                    

                

                

                  

           

                  

  main  contrib

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib

         deb       #

   

                  

   

       https://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist 

      

        http://mirrors.kernel.org   

                

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.4. UPGRADING PACKAGES

http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/binary-s390x/...

http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/bookworm/contrib/binary-s390x/...

                  main

 contrib

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian bookworm main contrib

   dists             

     

           

4.3.2 Adding APT sources for a local mirror

                 

        

        /var/local/debian/    

 

/var/local/debian/dists/bookworm/main/binary-s390x/...

/var/local/debian/dists/bookworm/contrib/binary-s390x/...

    apt      sources.list 

deb file:/var/local/debian bookworm main contrib

     

              

      #    

4.3.3 Adding APT sources from optical media

     only               

       #    

       /etc/fstab         /media/

cdrom      /dev/sr0     /etc/fstab   

 

/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0

     no spaces    noauto,ro    

         

# mount /media/cdrom # this will mount the CD to the mount point

# ls -alF /media/cdrom # this should show the CD's root directory

# umount /media/cdrom # this will unmount the CD

 

# apt-cdrom add

                

4.4 Upgrading packages

              

 apt

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.4. UPGRADING PACKAGES



apt is meant for interactive use, and should not be used in scripts. In scripts one

should use apt-get, which has a stable output better suitable for parsing.

           /usr   

  

# mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint

          /etc/apt/sources.list  

 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/    bookworm   stable   

      



Source lines for a CD-ROM might sometimes refer to “unstable”; although this

may be confusing, you should not change it.

4.4.1 Recording the session

        /usr/bin/script       

                  

           

# script -t 2>~/upgrade-bookwormstep.time -a ~/upgrade-bookwormstep.script

                  

step                   

    /tmp  /var/tmp         

    

                 

             less -R ~root/upgrade-bookworm.script

   

         script   exit   

apt         /var/log/apt/history.log   

  /var/log/apt/term.log dpkg          /var/

log/dpkg.log    aptitude        /var/log/aptitude

     -t   script     scriptreplay     



# scriptreplay ~/upgrade-bookwormstep.time ~/upgrade-bookwormstep.script

4.4.2 Updating the package list

                  

# apt update



CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.4. UPGRADING PACKAGES



Users of apt-secure may nd issues when using aptitude or apt-get. For apt-get,

you can use apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change.

4.4.3 Make sure you have sucient space for the upgrade

                 

              

         /var/cache/apt/archives   partial/ 

                

  /var/             

                 

               

                  

       

apt              

         

# apt -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true full-upgrade

[ ... ]

XXX upgraded, XXX newly installed, XXX to remove and XXX not upgraded.

Need to get xx.xMB of archives.

After this operation, AAAMB of additional disk space will be used.



Running this command at the beginning of the upgrade process may give an error,

for the reasons described in the next sections. In that case you will need to wait

until you’ve done the minimal system upgrade as in Section4.4.5 before running

this command to estimate the disk space.

          apt        

E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

           

           /var/cache/apt/

archives        apt clean    

  

        aptitude  apt     

                 

               

              

          

# apt autoremove

    deborphan debfoster  cruft       

             

               

            

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.4. UPGRADING PACKAGES

                 

        popularity-contest     popcon-

largest-unused                 

          dpigs    debian-goodies

   wajig  wajig size       aptitude 

aptitude      →      l   ~i 

 S   ~installsize          

                

 localepurge               

         /usr/share/locale

             /var/

log/

    /var/cache/apt/archives        

            



Do not use an NFS mount as the network connection could be interrupted

during the upgrade.

          /media/usbkey

          

# apt clean

    /var/cache/apt/archives    

# cp -ax /var/cache/apt/archives /media/usbkey/

         

# mount --bind /media/usbkey/archives /var/cache/apt/archives

       /var/cache/apt/archives 

# umount /var/cache/apt/archives

    /media/usbkey/archives

              

                

                 

       

                 

     

4.4.4 Stop monitoring systems

 apt                 

             monit 

     

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.5. POSSIBLE ISSUES DURING UPGRADE

4.4.5 Minimal system upgrade

               

               

             

    

# apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs

               

     

                  

      

  apt-listchanges           

            q  

       

4.4.6 Upgrading the system

                  

 

# apt full-upgrade

               

            

              

    

                

                  

         

             

                 

    aptitude          apt install

package

4.5 Possible issues during upgrade

             

4.5.1 Full-upgrade fails with “Could not perform immediate conguration”

    apt full-upgrade       

E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'package'. Please see man 5 apt. ←-

conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details.

    apt full-upgrade -o APT::Immediate-Congure=0   

   

             

        apt update

4.5.2 Expected removals

                

                 

                 

            

   

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.5. POSSIBLE ISSUES DURING UPGRADE

4.5.3 Conicts or Pre-Depends loops

      APT::Force-LoopBreak        

          apt       

           -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1 

 apt  

                

    apt 

# dpkg --remove package_name

       

# apt -f install

# dpkg --configure --pending

            

# dpkg --install /path/to/package_name.deb

4.5.4 File conicts

                  

           

Unpacking <package-foo> (from <package-foo-file>) ...

dpkg: error processing <package-foo> (--install):

trying to overwrite `<some-file-name>',

which is also in package <package-bar>

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Errors were encountered while processing:

<package-foo>

                last  

  

# dpkg -r --force-depends package_name

                

 apt 

4.5.5 Conguration changes

              

           /etc/init.d    /etc/manpath.

config              

                 

  .dpkg-old 

                     

                  

 

4.5.6 Change of session to console

                 

                  

               

 

                 

                

                 

                

 

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.6. UPGRADING YOUR KERNEL AND 

4.6 Upgrading your kernel and related packages

               

       linux-image-*        

   

                   

       initramfs-tools  udev      

                  

      

4.6.1 Installing a kernel metapackage

               

               

                

$ dpkg -l 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii | grep -i meta

                   

             

$ apt-cache search linux-image- | grep -i meta | grep -v transition

          uname -r        

      4.9.0-8-amd64       linux-image-amd64

    apt                

  

$ apt show linux-image-amd64

    apt install            

               

             

                 

      linux-source        deb-pkg 

                

    https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/

       debian-kernel-handbook 

                full-upgrade

                

      

4.7 Preparing for the next release

               

             

             

     

4.7.1 Purging removed packages

                

                

           

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CHAPTER 4. UPGRADES FROM DEBIAN 11  4.8. OBSOLETE PACKAGES



Purging a package will generally also purge its log les, so you might want to back

them up rst.

              

     

$ apt list '~c'

       apt purge          

      

# apt purge '~c'

4.8 Obsolete packages

                

              

              

        

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        

          

              

              

              

                  

       

             

$ apt list '~o'

# apt purge '~o'

     https://bugs.debian.org/    

                

           https://bugs.

debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org&archive=yes

           

4.8.1 Transitional dummy packages

             

              

                

                 

           

           

                

                   

deborphan   --guess-*   --guess-dummy     

   



                      

 

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Chapter 5

Issues to be aware of for bookworm

              

                

           

5.1 Upgrade specic items for bookworm

           

5.1.1 Non-free rmware moved to its own component in the archive

              

  non-free-firmware        

          non-free   

               

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware

        apt         

      https://manpages.debian.org//bookworm/apt/apt.

conf.5.html   /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-bookworm-firmware.conf   

 

APT::Get::Update::SourceListWarnings::NonFreeFirmware ”false”;

5.1.2 Changes to packages that set the system clock

 ntp                  

      ntpsec

             ntp  ntpsec

               

  systemd-timesyncd           ntp    

    chrony  openntpd       

    

5.1.3 Puppet conguration management system upgraded to 7

                

    

             

              puppetserver 

           puppet-master 

               

     /etc/puppet/puppetserver      

           auth.conf   

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CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.1. UPGRADE SPECIFIC ITEMS FOR BOOKWORM

    https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/server/config_

file_auth.html  

               

    https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/server/compatibility_

with_puppet_agent.html            

                  

       

 puppet       puppet-agent      

     

  puppetdb          

5.1.4 youtube-dl replaced with yt-dlp

   youtube-dl           

                  

      yt-dlp   yt-dlp     youtube-dl 

    

              

   yt-dlp   youtube-dl        

           yt-dlp   https://

manpages.debian.org//bookworm/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.1.html      

    https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.

1.html#Differences_in_default_behavior 

5.1.5 Fcitx versions no longer co-installable

  fcitx  fcitx5            

            

                

fcitx  fcitx5 

              

  fcitx-*     fcitx5-*         

  im-cong              

              https:

//lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2021/12/msg00000.html    

 

5.1.6 MariaDB package names no longer include version numbers

           mariadb-server-10.5 

mariadb-client-10.5           

  mariadb-server  mariadb-client        

  

          https://bugs.debian.org/

1035949         

apt-get install default-mysql-server

   mariadb-client-10.5    /usr/bin/mariadb-admin    

             mariadb-admin 

   

apt upgrade

 

apt full-upgrade

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           /usr/share/doc/mariadb-server/

NEWS.Debian.gz https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/blob/280369f034bedae714af2f26111d1d9d1659f142/

debian/mariadb-server.NEWS

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CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.1. UPGRADE SPECIFIC ITEMS FOR BOOKWORM

5.1.7 Changes to system logging

 rsyslog                

               

             rsyslog

  rsyslog            

             /var/log/syslog

  rsyslog              

rsyslog           

apt-mark auto rsyslog

  

apt autoremove

                

              

        https://manpages.debian.org/

/bookworm/systemd/journald.conf.5.html

       rsyslog     journalctl     

         /var/log/journal  

journalctl -e

         

journalctl -ef

         

tail -f /var/log/syslog

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5.1.8 rsyslog changes aecting log analyzers such as logcheck

rsyslog             

              

https://manpages.debian.org//bookworm/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.5.html

       logcheck     logcheck

        systemd-journald  rsyslog   

              

           rsyslog     

    logcheck-database        

            

 https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logcheck/-/blob/debian/

1.4.0/debian/logcheck-database.NEWS        logcheck 

5.1.9 rsyslog creates fewer log les

rsyslog            /var/log   

      rsyslog       /var/log   

               /var/log/syslog 

                  

 /var/log/syslog

       

 /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err}

              

 /var/log/mail.log           

               

     

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 /var/log/lpr.log

               cups

                 

    

 /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}

               

      /var/log/syslog

5.1.10 slapd upgrade may require manual intervention

                

   https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/raw/OPENLDAP_

REL_ENG_2_5/ANNOUNCEMENT      slapd   

         

        

   https://manpages.debian.org//bullseye/slapd/slapd-bdb.5.html

  https://manpages.debian.org//bullseye/slapd/slapd-hdb.5.html

               

        https://manpages.debian.org/

/bookworm/slapd/slapd-mdb.5.html  before   

   https://manpages.debian.org//bullseye/slapd/slapd-shell.5.

html     

   https://manpages.debian.org//bookworm/slapd/slapo-ppolicy.

5.html              

      

   https://manpages.debian.org//bullseye/slapd-contrib/slapd-pw-argon2.

5.html         https://manpages.debian.

org//bookworm/slapd/slappw-argon2.5.html

        slapd      

 https://sources.debian.org/src/openldap/bookworm/debian/

slapd.README.Debian/         https://openldap.

org/doc/admin25/appendix-upgrading.html

5.1.11 GRUB no longer runs os-prober by default

    grub    os-prober        

                  

                 

  

                 

             /etc/default/grub  

   GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false   update-grub  

dpkg-reconfigure <GRUB_PACKAGE>

           

5.1.12 GNOME has reduced accessibility support for screen readers

 GNOME      GTK3    GTK4     

         orca

                 

https://mate-desktop.org           

 mate-desktop-environment           

   https://wiki.debian.org/Accessibility/Orca#MATE

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5.1.13 Changes to polkit conguration

        polkit  PolicyKit 

             

                

 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript     /etc/polkit-1/

rules.d/*.rules           /usr/share/doc/polkitd/

examples/   https://manpages.debian.org//unstable/polkitd/polkit.8.

html#AUTHORIZATION_RULES   

      pkla       /etc/polkit-1/

localauthority  /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority  .pkla   

           polkitd-pkla   

                

                  

 

5.1.14 A “merged-/usr” is now required

         /usr     

  /bin /sbin /lib      /lib64     

          /usr/bin /usr/sbin

/usr/lib  /usr/lib64       /bin/bash  /usr/bin/bash

  bash

                 

               

              

                

                 

      /bin/sh        





dpkg --search

          

dpkg --search /usr/bin/bash

    bash     

dpkg --search /bin/bash

   

                 

 /usr/bin/name  /bin/name          

              

  

                https://wiki.

debian.org//https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Microsoft/Windows/

SubsystemForLinux        https://en.

wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS        

                

             



          https://www.freedesktop.org/

wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/      

 https://bugs.debian.org/994388#110



CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.2. ITEMS NOT LIMITED TO THE UPGRADE 

5.1.15 Unsupported upgrades from buster fail on libcrypt1

               

               

https://bugs.debian.org/993755    

Setting up libc6:s390x (2.36-9) ...

/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open ←-

shared object file: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing package libc6:s390x (--configure):

installed libc6:s390x package post-installation script subprocess returned error ←-

exit status 127

              

 libcrypt1

# cd $(mktemp -d)

# apt download libcrypt1

# dpkg-deb -x libcrypt1_*.deb .

# cp -ra lib/* /lib/

# apt --fix-broken install

5.1.16 Things to do post upgrade before rebooting

 apt full-upgrade            

          

5.2 Items not limited to the upgrade process

5.2.1 Limitations in security support

              

      



The package debian-security-support helps to track the security support

status of installed packages.

5.2.1.1 Security status of web browsers and their rendering engines

               

                

              

            

    webkit2gtk    epiphany     

        qtwebkit-opensource-src  



               

              

    oldstable        

               

   oldstable      



CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.2. ITEMS NOT LIMITED TO THE UPGRADE 

5.2.1.2 Go- and Rust-based packages

            

                  

              

                 

   

5.2.2 Python Interpreters marked externally-managed

      python3.11  pypy3     

   https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/   

python3-pip              

    --break-system-packages   

                

     pipx   pipx   pipx      

             

 

                 

              venv 

    python3-venv     virtualenv     

virtualenv        pip install --user foo  mkdir -p

~/.venvs && python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/foo && ~/.venvs/foo/bin/python -m pip install foo 

     

 /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv   

5.2.3 Limited hardware-accelerated video encoding/decoding support in VLC

            

               

                

               



              

  

         vainfo  vdpauinfo    

     

5.2.4 systemd-resolved has been split into a separate package

  systemd-resolved           

  systemd-resolved           

                 

             

  /etc/resolv.conf         

 https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-resolved.

service.html               

                

 

5.2.5 systemd-boot has been split into a separate package

  systemd-boot            

systemd-boot                

             

                

             

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CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.3. OBSOLESCENCE AND DEPRECATION

5.2.6 systemd-journal-remote no longer uses GnuTLS

   https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/

man/systemd-journal-remote.service.html#--trust=   https:

//www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journal-gatewayd.service.

html#--trust=           --trust 

                

5.2.7 Extensive changes in adduser for bookworm

      adduser       --disabled-password

 --disabled-login           /usr/

share/doc/adduser/NEWS.Debian.gz

5.2.8 Predictable naming for Xen network interfaces

     systemd         

               

            enX#    

             

  https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames#bookworm-xen

5.2.9 Change in dash handling of circumex

dash        /bin/sh       

 ^             

   [^0-9]             ^

5.2.10 netcat-openbsd supports abstract sockets

 netcat            

https://manpages.debian.org//bookworm/manpages/unix.7.html#Abstract_sockets

       

  netcat    netcat-traditional   netcat    

netcat-openbsd       AF_UNIX        

  -U   nc         @    

         @        

               

          @      ./   

  

5.3 Obsolescence and deprecation

5.3.1 Noteworthy obsolete packages

               

     

  libnss-ldap           

  libnss-ldapd  libnss-sss

  libpam-ldap          libpam-ldapd

  fdflush            blockdev

--ushbufs  util-linux

  libgdal-perl           

                

              

           https://wiki.

debian.org/BookwormGdalPerl

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CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.4. KNOWN SEVERE BUGS

5.3.2 Deprecated components for bookworm

                

            

    

      gw_name       libnss-gw-name

            libnss-myhostname



 dmraid                

                dmraid

 request-tracker4     request-tracker5      

             

      

  isc-dhcp     https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/

   https://www.isc.org/    https://wiki.debian.org/ 

        https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_

Client    https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server    

     NetworkManager  systemd-networkd     

isc-dhcp-client             

ifupdown      udhcpc      

 Kea       

      isc-dhcp       

              

https://bugs.debian.org/1035972   

5.4 Known severe bugs

              

                  

        https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.

[email protected];tag=bookworm-can-defer  

                  

 https://bugs.debian.org/          

       

Bug number Package (source or binary) Description

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1032240

akonadi-backend-mysql

    

    

 

 https://bugs.

debian.org/918984

src:fuse3

    

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1016903

g++-12

   

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1020284

git-daemon-run

     

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/919296

git-daemon-run

   

   

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1034752

src:gluegen2   



CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.4. KNOWN SEVERE BUGS

Bug number Package (source or binary) Description

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036256

src:golang-github-pin-tftp

   

   

    

  



   

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036575

groonga-bin

  

 

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036041

src:grub2

  

     

    

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/558422

grub-pc  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/913916

grub-efi-amd64

   

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/924151

grub2-common

     

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/925134

grub-efi-amd64



  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/945001

grub-efi-amd64

    



 https://bugs.

debian.org/965026

grub-emu

   

   

 https://bugs.

debian.org/984760

grub-efi-amd64

  

  









 

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036263

src:guestfs-tools

    

 

 

 https://bugs.

debian.org/916596

iptables

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/919058

itstool

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1028416

kexec-tools

   

    

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/935182

libreoffice-core

    

    

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036755

src:linux

    

  

 

ganeti

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036580

src:llvm-defaults

    

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036359

elpa-markdown-toc

  

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1032647

nvidia-driver

   

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1029342

openjdk-17-jre-headless

    

   

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1035798

libphp8.2-embed

   

  





CHAPTER 5. ISSUES TO BE AWARE OF FOR  5.4. KNOWN SEVERE BUGS

Bug number Package (source or binary) Description

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1034993

software-properties-qt

  

 

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036388

sylpheed

    



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036424

sylpheed

     

   



 https://bugs.

debian.org/994274

src:syslinux    

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1031152

system-config-printer

   

  

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/975490

u-boot-sunxi

 

    

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1034995

python-is-python3

  

 

  

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036881

whitedune 

 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036601

xenstore-utils

  



 https://bugs.

debian.org/1036578

python3-yade      



Chapter 6

More information on Debian

6.1 Further reading

        https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/

installmanual           

               

              

         https://www.debian.org/doc/

    https://wiki.debian.org/

       /usr/share/doc/package   

         

6.2 Getting help

                

             

           

6.2.1 Mailing lists

                

language               

 https://lists.debian.org/           

       

6.2.2 Internet Relay Chat

                 

              #debian

              

  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIRC

         http://www.oftc.net/

6.3 Reporting bugs

                

               

                 

       https://bugs.debian.org/

                    

                 

                 

  



CHAPTER 6. MORE INFORMATION ON DEBIAN 6.4. CONTRIBUTING TO DEBIAN

         reportbug        

                

  /usr/share/doc/debian    doc-debian       

 https://bugs.debian.org/

6.4 Contributing to Debian

                  

    https://lists.debian.org/      

             

    https://lists.debian.org/      

     https://bugs.debian.org/   

        how-can-i-help        

                   

  https://www.debian.org/doc/vcs   https://www.debian.

org/international/      

                

               

          https://www.debian.

org/devel/wnpp/             

          https://www.debian.org/

devel/#projects           https:

//wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends       

                  

               

                 

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Chapter 7

Glossary

ACPI

    

ALSA

   

 

 

CD-ROM

    

DHCP

   

DLBD

   

DNS

  

DVD

  

GIMP

   

GNU

  

GPG

  

LDAP

   

LSB

  

LVM

  

MTA

  

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CHAPTER 7. GLOSSARY

NBD

  

NFS

  

NIC

  

NIS

  

PHP

  

RAID

    

SATA

   

SSL

  

TLS

  

UEFI

   

USB

  

UUID

  

WPA

  

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Appendix A

Managing your bullseye system before

the upgrade

               

    

A.1 Upgrading your bullseye system

                

                  



                

  

A.2 Checking your APT source-list les

            https://manpages.debian.

org//bookworm/apt/sources.list.5.html    stable   

                   

     apt update           



               

               

                 

          /etc/apt/sources.list   

        deb http: deb https: deb tor+http: deb

tor+https: URIs: http: URIs: https: URIs: tor+http:  URIs: tor+https:  

  stable      stable  bullseye

       deb file:  URIs: file:       

           



Do not change any lines that begin with deb cdrom: or URIs: cdrom:. Doing

so would invalidate the line and you would have to run apt-cdrom again. Do not be

alarmed if a cdrom: source line refers to “unstable”. Although confusing, this is

normal.

         

# apt update

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APPENDIX A. MANAGING YOUR BULLSEYE  A.3. PERFORMING THE UPGRADE TO LATEST 

    

A.3 Performing the upgrade to latest bullseye release

              

# apt full-upgrade

A.4 Removing obsolete conguration les

              

 *.dpkg-{new,old}   /etc   

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Appendix B

Contributors to the Release Notes

           

             

            

           

           

              

           

             

            

            

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Index

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

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 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

 

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