Re: Careful with dist-upgrade in unstable at the moment

[Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@debian.org>]

Hi all,

Le mercredi 21 décembre 2022, 21:37:45 CET Marc Haber a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> P.S. dist-upgrade is as deprecated as it could be, it's not even in the
> man page any more

That can be correct or incorrect depending on which manpage you’re looking at. :)
dist-upgrade is an argument for apt-get while full-upgrade is for apt.

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).


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien