Re: Plasma 5.23 25th Annivery Release coming to unstable

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Andrey Rahmatullin - 15.10.21, 12:36:10 CEST:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:31:55PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
> > > IME it's *rarely* needed.
> > > Normally aptitude safe-upgrade installs and removes packages as
> > > needed.> 
> > I beg to disagree. Here you speak about *aptitude* which is a tool
> > that is not the plain apt tool itself. You could also say things
> > for dselect, synaptic, discover...
> > 
> > With apt-get, you have to use dist-upgrade quite often because as
> > other have pointed out, you cannot add or remove packages without
> > dist-upgrade.
> > 
> > Clearly to install libkdecorations2-5v5, you will need apt-get
> > dist-upgrade. And the libkdecorations2-5v5 that was wrongly put in
> > experimental does break the unstable version...
> 
> apt upgrade, as opposed to apt-get upgrade, can install new packages.

Interesting information. I was not aware of that.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin