Re: Careful with dist-upgrade in unstable at the moment
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:50:45PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Marc Haber - 21.12.22, 12:00:39 CET:
> > > Stop using *dist-*upgrade by DEFAULT.
> >
> > *AMEN* to that.
>
> I usually do "dist-upgrade", but then look carefully what it is about to
> do. If I don't like that, I only to "upgrade".
>
> Of course one can argue it is safer to do it the other way around.
I find it way easier to have apt reduce the problem riskless first. It's
a shorter list of actions to review.
Greetings
Marc
P.S. dist-upgrade is as deprecated as it could be, it's not even in the
man page any more
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