I had two Raspberry Pi systems running Raspbian and they were failing to find updates for newer packages.

As Debian stable was upgraded too, moving from buster to bullseye the packages failed to get the newer ones.

Warning

Beware as this procedure might upgrade the system but might no render a bootable Raspberry Pi

A way to fix it is, to first, change references, if any, to the old codename version by running:

sed -i 's/buster/bullseye/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sed -i 's/buster/bullseye/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list

And then, accept the updated new files for the new one:

apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change

Finally, we can perform the upgrade by first, installing some dependencies that will be required:

 apt update
 apt install libgcc-8-dev gcc-8-base
 apt full-upgrade

With this, we get the new repository metadata, install the new required dependencies and perform the upgrade itself.

Enjoy! (and if you do, you can Buy Me a Coffee )