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I installed debian buster on a server while it was the debian testing release. Now that buster is the current stable release, I've updated /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade. However my /etc/os-release file reads PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid" instead of buster. /etc/issue also indicates bullseye/sid.

How do I safely update the /etc/os-release file, and any others that indicate a testing version?

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Both /etc/os-release and /etc/issue are in the base-files package.

Make sure you have something like the following in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster main

Followed by sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y install base-files.

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