Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?
On 1/26/16, Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> 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 …
> --
> Hell will have perfume.
> [Agree] [Disagree]
>
> <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
>
Now, now Bob - be nice.
<sigh.>
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