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

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

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,
-- 
Martin