Francois,

Is this how to use apt-listbugs?

(copied from 
http://www.mepislovers.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7283&post_id=52507 
while googling "apt-listbugs howto" even though I run a Debian system):

Before you do the upgrade, make sure you install apt-listbugs (apt-get 
install apt-listbugs)

Then do apt-get update (to update the repository info)

Then... do the plain vanilla apt-get upgrade (NOT apt-get dist-upgrade).

Then... once all the packages download (there will be a lot of them), 
apt-listbugs will run and almost certainly spit out a bug report. At 
this point, when it asks if you want to continue, put in p and hit 
enter. This pins all those packages with bugs so that they won't get 
installed. I think it asks if you are sure if you want to pin, say yes, 
then it asks if you want to continue the installation, say N (no!) and 
hit enter. This will end apt-get (but you must fully abort and exit in 
order not to install the buggy packages).

Then simply run apt-get upgrade again. This time it will figure out all 
the dependencies and so forth with the knowledge of which packages are 
buggy/pinned. It will most likely tell you it needs to download 0 MB, do 
you want to continue with the install. Yes. Then it will check for bugs 
again and not find any and install all the stuff

While it is installing/updating programs, it will ask you for 
configuration options on some of the programs... just choose the default 
settings every time.

Thanks!

Mark

Francois, Jean (J.L.) wrote:

>>Do I have to do a dist-upgrade at some point to stay with testing?
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>>You should be doing dist-upgrades at least once in a while if you're
>>tracking testing or unstable. I do upgrade and dist-upgrade almost
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>every
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>>day on my testing machines. I seldom have problems.
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>>Minor point I have made on the list before.  Running dist-upgrade
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>especially on testing and unstable can be VERY dangerous if you are not
>tracking the 
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>>development of Debian.  Look through the archives of this list alone to
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>see the number of people that come crying after performing that
>operation and walk 
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>>away not liking Debian.  Hans is 100% correct that it does need to be
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>run once in a while to get the "good stuff".  I strongly suggest first
>running apt-
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>>get upgrade then doing an apt-get -u dist-upgrade and see what packages
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>it wants to pull.  Possibly even research and make sure they don't have
>massive 
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>>crippling bugs filed against them. ; ) 
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>>Also, do as Hans says and use sarge instead of testing in your sources
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>list.  This will make for a smoother transition.
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>>-Derek
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>Install apt-listbugs:
>http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apt-listbugs
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>This will let you see what you can do safely and pick what goes in or
>doesn't...
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