Is it safe to take the new Debian BullsEye Rasp Pi OS upgrade?

[DR]

A friend who uses Rasp Pi stuff for his astronomy hobby just told me
that there is a new Debian release, Bullseye.

My system is running just peachy right now, and while I like the newest
and the greatest, is it wise to wait a bit, or are new Linux type
systems usually pretty well wrung out before they are released?


Is WeeWx running well with this update?

Just curious but cautious!   Dale

[vince]

Works fine.

[Bill Arthur]

I'm in the process of upgrading all my installations to Bullseye. 
The first time I added the GW1000 extension to weewx it crashed, it may have been because I had modified weewx.conf before installing the extension.
I tried it again without modifying the .conf file and it installed correctly.

On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:27:07 PM UTC-6 vince wrote:

Works fine.

[Samuel Kirby-Bray]

I just made a new image of RPi Bullseye and tried installing Weewx from fresh. Got this message:

Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).

Found the keyfiles : http://weewx.com/keys.html , but dont' know how to add to trusted sources.

other word of warning don't be tempted to update the firmware via sudo rpi-update - I did this and the video out stopped working. I had to make a new image.
Apart from these issues Bullseye works fine! 

[vince]

'deprecated' means it still works now, but the functionality will be removed in a 'future' major release.

Did you try the commands as written ?

Did they work ?

Did you successfully install weewx or did it not install with a complaint about the package not being signed ?

There was a thread on this last week (link) that I posted a workaround (how to force it) and the future way they want you to do it (what we'll need to do in the next debian release).