Bug#1106489: xdg-user-dir: not found

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 00:10:15 +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
>(this box was upgrader from Buster to Trixie in one go, it was brutal)

I think it's worth emphasizing here that this is specifically not 
supported, so that our users don't get the wrong idea. A Debian expert can 
sometimes make skipping releases work, but the only supported upgrade 
path is from one release to the next, and packages are not expected to 
handle skipping a release gracefully.

Upgrading from bullseye (or older) to trixie is particularly likely to 
cause problems, because of the t64 transition.

In this case the supportable upgrade path would have been:

* buster -> bullseye (Debian 10 -> 11)
* reboot into new kernel
* bullseye -> bookworm (11 -> 12)
* reboot into new kernel
* bookworm -> trixie (12 -> 13)

     smcv