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		pabs3 on July 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nea... I think the crossgrading in the post was definitely a more manual process than the automated crossgrade tool, but yeah the tool is relatively new in Debian terms.

stevekemp on July 28, 2022 [–]

Yes I performed an i386 -> amd64 migration, of a Debian system, back in 2012:

https://blog.steve.fi/today_i_migrated_from_32_bit_to_64_bit...

It wasn't hugely difficult, but it required a bit of attention to details and I think some forced-replacements of packages.

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