Re: is there any difference in upgrade and dist-upgrade on unstable?

[Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>]

Thus spake Grzesiek Sedek:
> Hi,
> Is there difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade running sid? 
> Thanks

from apt-get(8)

dist-upgrade
      dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
      also intelligently handles changing dependencies with  new  ver-
      sions  of  packages;  apt-get  has a "smart" conflict resolution
      system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important  pack-
      ages  at  the  expense of less important ones if necessary.

An example that I've heard used before is that if a new version of a
package requires another package to be removed, upgrade will not do it,
but dist-upgrade will.  I typically use dist-upgrade on all my unstable
machines.

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