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Bug#931559: marked as done (release-notes: inaccurately claims 'apt upgrade' doesn't install new packages)

Your message dated Tue, 9 Jul 2019 21:46:15 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#931637: Slight inaccuracy in explanation of "apt upgrade"
has caused the Debian Bug report #931637,
regarding release-notes: inaccurately claims 'apt upgrade' doesn't install new packages
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

Hello,

Filling this as a bug in case the fix should be deferred until later 
(e.g. to give translators a chance to catch-up).

Probably due to a s/apt-get/apt/ the minimal upgrade section claims
'apt upgrade' doesn't install new packages.

While this shouldn't create any problems in practice, it might still 
surprise some users, so it should be fixed (eventually). Attached a 
minimal patch addressing this.

Slightly more intrusive: move the mention about new libraries from
'apt full-upgrade' a few paragraphs further down. I can come up with a 
patch if desired.

Alternatively the command could also be switched back to 'apt-get' in 
order to get the minimal upgrade to be as minimal as possible ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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diff --git a/en/upgrading.dbk b/en/upgrading.dbk
index 90e8b9c3..ce1565d0 100644
--- a/en/upgrading.dbk
+++ b/en/upgrading.dbk
@@ -934,7 +934,8 @@ E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
     </screen>
     <para>
       This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be upgraded without
-      requiring any other packages to be removed or installed.
+      requiring any other packages to be removed, but will install new packages if
+      needed.
     </para>
 
     <para>

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Hi,

On 08-07-2019 17:44, Justin B Rye wrote:
> merge Bug#931637 931559
> thanks
> 
> Ben Harris wrote:
>> In section 4.4.4, "Minimal system upgrade", the Release notes say that "apt
>> upgrade" "has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be upgraded
>> without requiring any other packages to be removed or installed".
>>
>> However, when I ran this command (and consistently with my past experience
>> of "apt upgrade"), it didn't just upgrade packages, but also installed new
>> ones.  I think this is a change from "apt-get upgrade", which behaved as
>> described here.
> 
> Yes, sorry, we'd just noticed this (bug #931559).  Let's see if I can
> work out how to do a merge.
>  
>> To correct this, I think the words "or installed" should be omitted from the
>> end of the sentence.
> 
> That would accurately reflect the fact that the instructions given no
> longer provide a minimal upgrade, but I would prefer to correct them
> so that they do - this is all the result of a search-and-replace of
> "apt-get" to "apt" where the two in fact behave slightly differently.
> 
> I attach a patch that does only that.  It has also been suggested
> that we could add a footnote suggesting that users might
> alternatively use "apt upgrade" but that this also installs new
> packages - what do you think?

Thanks, pushed.

Paul

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