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 From: last.rain1438@fastmail.com 
  
 Package: upgrade-reports 
 Severity: normal 
 X-Debbugs-Cc: last.rain1438@fastmail.com 
  
 (Please provide enough information to help the Debian 
 maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling 
 in the sections below.) 
  
 My previous release is: bookworm 
 I am upgrading to: trixie 
 Archive date: ? 
 Upgrade date: 2025-08-13 
 uname -a before upgrade: (unavailable) 
 uname -a after upgrade: Linux zothique 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP 
 PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.38-1 (2025-07-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux  (this is 
 after 
 problem was remediated manually 
 Method: followed instructions at 
 https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html 
  
 Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list: 
  
 I removed /etc/apt/sources.list completely and replaced it with debian. 
 sources 
 per instructions 
  
  
 - Were there any non-Debian packages installed before the upgrade?  If 
   so, what were they? 
  
 no 
  
 - Was the system pre-update a 'pure' system only containing packages 
   from the previous release? If not, which packages were not from that 
   release? 
  
 yes 
  
 - Did any packages fail to upgrade? 
  
 no 
  
 - Were there any problems with the system after upgrading? 
  
 yes 
  
 The problem was simple: when I ran a tool such as "neofetch" it said I was 
 still on "bookworm."  Looking around /etc/ I discovered that /etc/os-release 
 was a regular file (not a symlink) which contained the following: 
  
 PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" 
 NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" 
 VERSION_ID="12" 
 VERSION="12 (bookworm)" 
 VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm 
 ID=debian 
 HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" 
 SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" 
 BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" 
 IMAGE_ID=live 
 BUILD_ID=20241109T101058Z 
  
 I learned from commenters on reddit that this was one of the "base-files" 
 package.  Messing with dpkg -l I discovered that this had been "diverted" so 
 that the symlink which was supposed to be there was at /etc/os- 
 release.debootstrap .  I removed the file /etc/os-release manually and ran 
 "sudo dpkg-divert --remove --rename /etc/os-release" to un-divert the file, 
 and 
 that fixed it. 
  
 I don't know why that diversion happened; it was probably that way ever 
 since I 
 first installed the system.  However, it would have been helpful if in the 
 process of upgrading to trixie, that diversion were removed so that /etc/os- 
 release could accurately reflect the system.  The fact that that didn't 
 happen 
 and I was left with an inaccurate /etc/os-release is the substance of the 
 bug 
 report. 
  
  
 Further Comments/Problems: 
  
  
 Please attach the output of "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l" (or "env COLUMNS ...", 
 depending on your shell) from before and after the upgrade so that we 
 know what packages were installed on your system. 
  
 I didn't do this before the upgrade, and I'm skipping it now since I'm 
 pretty 
 sure that would be irrelevant to the bug report but I can provide this info 
 for 
 my current system on request. 
  
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