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dist-upgrademust die.I spent like three hours I didn't have the other day trying to bring a Debian Unstable system up to date, it decided to stop every few packages to tell me it failed because the
t64libraries conflict with the regular ones and nobody taughtapthow to figure that shit out for me and install the right ones.Even Ubuntu is like "oh hey there's a new release, you're available for three hours straight to, every two to fifty minutes, explain to a TUI dialog that you don't have an opinion, right? Oh also can you resolve this merge conflict on this config file we think you edited, but you didn't, by being shown the diff once and then opening nano?"
This is not an acceptable way for this to go.
Life protip, if you arnt using Debian, as in normal Debian. Just use fedora or arch.
If you need anything remotely up to date, just avoid anything and everything that uses apt. You will have Infinitly less headaches.
There's a good fucking reason valve uses arch.
Debian unstable is not a distro....
You cant complain about software breakage in a software that is still under development
Consider it as an early access game on steam.
What it is is my attempt to avoid the nonsense biannual massive Ubuntu upgrades.
Really I've got "Siduction", an ostensible distro "based on" Debian Unstable. This is accomplished by just having the Debian Unstable package sources in there, plus a couple others that give you pretty themes.
I expect Debian Unstable to occasionally ship me broken packages, but I'm surprised to have it just generally not have functional migration solutions when the setup goes through major changes. Not because there's a bug in something, as far as I can tell, but because nobody engineered anything.