Re: Careful with dist-upgrade in unstable at the moment
Aurélien COUDERC - 21.12.22, 23:10:14 CET:
> I’d like to recommend using « apt upgrade » which has a slightly
> different behaviour than apt-get : it will upgrade already installed
> packages but also install new packages where necessary (which apt-get
> upgrade won’t do).
>
> This will leave full-upgrade with less things to do and for me to
> review. The only remaining packages should have a note in their
> changelog about doing a split, replacing another package or adding a
> Breaks/Replace condition. I regularly check this when I see non
> obvious removals (and by obvious I really only mean libfooN+1
> replacing libfooN).
Interesting.
I did not know this difference in behavior between "apt" and "apt-get".
Thank you, Aurélien
Ciao,
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Martin
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