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Bug#865215: marked as done (release-notes: Perform upgrades with apt(8) instead of apt-get(8))

Your message dated Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:58:09 +0100
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and subject line Re: release-notes: Perform upgrades with apt(8) instead of apt-get(8)
has caused the Debian Bug report #865215,
regarding release-notes: Perform upgrades with apt(8) instead of apt-get(8)
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Package: release-notes
Severity: wishlist

Upgrades are really an interactive situation, and the apt tool should allow upgrades to go
a bit more smoothly because it has the APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New default to true, allowing
additional packages to be installed in the upgrade command.

It also has a nicer interactive output with a progress bar, which is immensely nice when
performing large operations; and colorful output.

For the record, these are the options set by apt(8):

      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Color", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Show::Version", 2);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::AllVersions", false);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVirtuals", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search::Version", 2);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowDependencyType", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVersion", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cmd::Show-Update-Stats", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::DPkg::Progress-Fancy", true);
      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages", false);

(The binary::apt prefix allows overriding settings for a specific binary)

While we believe that apt(8) should not be used in scripts (its output be parsed),
that's mostly a matter of it evolving normally, compared to apt-get which is basically
running in a legacy mode to not break anything parsing its output.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (98, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Hi,

On 15-03-2019 22:27, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch moreinfo
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:37:06 +0200 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Upgrades are really an interactive situation, and the apt tool should allow upgrades to go
>> a bit more smoothly because it has the APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New default to true, allowing
>> additional packages to be installed in the upgrade command.
> 
> I have replaced all references to apt-get by apt and added a note in the
> section where we recommend apt. Can you please check that I didn't say
> anything stupid and that all cases are supported?

I went ahead and committed this:
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/commit/b72eb99

Paul

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