Looking at Debian’s release-critical bugs, you can see that Trixie is close:
Testing now has fewer critical bugs than Stable, and the number is dropping quickly.
About 200 bugs still need to be fixed to get the number down to where the previous releases were done.

Maybe you can help? Bugs blocking the next release can be as simple as missing translations for the upgrade instructions.

  • superkretOP
    3·
    22 hours ago

    I upgraded to Trixie last week.
    It already worked as flawlessly as I’d expect it when the release is official.
    It installed a bunch of new packages, removed the same number of obsolete ones, and upgraded everything else.
    On the next apt update, it asks to reformat sources.list and that’s it.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah, I did that in a system as well and seems to work, for for the others I’ll have to wait for the final release, too critical. I’m one of those guys who runs a lot of Debian because the risks of a distro like Ubuntu Server are way over what I can be exposed to.

      • superkretOP
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Yeah, you don’t want to have to explain that production went down cause you migrated it to the “Testing” branch.

        • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          20 hours ago

          Trust me, at that point there won’t be any explaining possible :D

          We’ve been burned by a lot of distros in the past and right now it all boils down to using Debian and RHEL, everything else mostly failed at some point or will not uphold the stability guarantees. Even containers with Alpine fucked us over once with the musl DNS issues and a few other missing parts…