Re: What's the "apt" equivalent of "apt-get upgrade"?

[Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de>]

28.10.25, 04:22 +0100, Greg Wooledge:

> In this thread, I believe 1 or 2 people offered "--without-new-pkgs"
> as an answer, but they noted that this was just a theory which had not
> been tested.

Well, it's not exactly untested. I use
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
quite frequently, because in the Debian release notes (at least since
Bullseye) in the "Upgrades from ..." section, one ist told to use this
command to make a "Minimal system upgrade":

>     To do this, first run:
> 
>     # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
> 
> 
>     This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be
>     upgraded without requiring any other packages to be removed or
>     installed.

Nevertheless, Greg, I don't dispute that there's room for improvement
wrt the documentation (probably plenty of it).

-- 
Regards
  mks