John Hasler:
> Adam Wilson writes:
>> You should be running dist-upgrades in stable. apt-get upgrade only
>> gets new package versions, leaving out upgrades which require new
>> packages, old packages to be removed, dependency changes, etc.
>> dist-upgrade is necessary if you want all the latest updates.
>
> You do not need dist-upgrade in Stable. The only changes to Stable are
> new versions of packages already in it.
I think there may be cases during point releases where this is not
necessarily true.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but I generally think we need to stop
telling people things like "When running stable, use 'upgrade' and when
running testing/unstable use 'dist-upgrade'".
The general rule is "You have to use dist-upgrade if the upgrades
require changing the set of installed packages". It is a simple sentence
which is (by default)[1] always true.
J.
[1] Yes, I know, there is also APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New …
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