[SOLVED] What Happened To Debian

Originally Posted by fatmac Systemd is what happened!

Yes. Things have changed.

This lacks security and updates (used to be volatile) repositories:

Originally Posted by kevinbenko Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable non-free contrib main

You should consider using the release code name, rather than "stable" as that can lead to unplanned upgrades.

All of this is 3rd party:

Originally Posted by kevinbenko 2: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free 3: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ stable non-free 4: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-developer/ stable non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-buster.list 1: deb https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ buster main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list 1: deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main

https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

^ Which could well have been the reason for this:

Originally Posted by kevinbenko However, it seems to me, that Debian has had some problems with packages acting "weirdly" after an upgrade (PS: I have used Testing since 2008). And recently, I had to do another reinstall because a package was "broken" and was affecting another package that I could not remove, nor could I do an update.