On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote: > AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases of > kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just > another package. aptitude has just upgraded me automatically from 3.10-x bpo to 3.11-x bpo then to 3.12-0 bpo. I imagine it depends on what it has been told to do: safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. Lisi