Debian Testing broke my install just now (already fixed)
Standard apt-get update and apt-get upgrade broke just now and it was typically easy to fix. dhclient didn't bring up my wifi card so I plugged it in to bring up the network card, quick dpkg --configure -a didn't return anything so I just did apt full-upgrade at the recovery console and that fixed it.
I love Debian (and linux)
For anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Debian's release process, the Testing distribution is not a release. Rather, it is a holding area for packages that may eventually become part of a release.
Some people choose to run it instead of Debian Stable in order to get more recent non-security updates to packages, with the understanding that occasional breakage is normal for Testing.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_practices_for_testing.2Fsid_users.3F
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
https://www.debian.org/devel/testing
With btrfs I would just do a snapshot before an upgrade then restore if it broke.
gotta get through the upgrade somehow
this is actually the default behavior for zypper!
lol, this is probably why, 12.10 just dropped
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250315