So a new major version of Debian has been released, and now I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version. I don’t want to rush to conclusions like “Ubuntu has money for better quality assurance”. I can easily come up with explanations for why these statistics can be skewed, like “Ubuntu-loving plebeians do not come to complain to elite Lemmy users about their puny problems”. I’m curious what you think?

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been doing debian upgrades without significant issues. With debian 13 I find I’m getting some deprecation messages from python and I have had to make some small code patches to fix them. I see that as more of a python issue than a debian issue.

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      4 hours ago

      that’s where most of my ‘issues’ come from when upgrading an old debian… upstream version changes to major software packages (python, php, even apache 1.x to 2 back in the day) that require some manual intervention

    • arty@feddit.orgOP
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      2 days ago

      Sure, this is fair!

      Regarding this release, do you see more posts about it, compared with others?