On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brian wrote: > > The Wheezy point releases have no BIND9 updates so, without searching > > further, I am unable to check that new libraries were installed. Even > > if they were they would be from stable, which is ok. > > This was a recent BIND9 upgrade in Wheezy on 18 Feb 2015. > > https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3162 > > The BIND package is actually a combined set of libraries plus > executables. They don't have a stable API. Therefore the entire > bundle always needs to be updated. The libraries have the version > number encoded in the name. Therefore it requires dist-upgrade in > order to handle installing bind security releases.
Thank you for the explanation. It requires very little effort to extend separate upgrade and dist-upgrade steps to stable so I for one will strongly consider moving in that direction. But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1] apt-get update apt-get -y upgrade aptitude -y upgrade apt-get -y dist-upgrade aptitude -y dist-upgrade apt-get -y autoremove When asked about it the response was [1]: First apt-get upgrade does the easy upgrades. Then aptitude upgrade does the slightly harder upgrades (new packages). Then apt-get dist-upgrade does the easy dist-upgrades. Then aptitude dist-upgrade does the harder dist-upgrades where manual intervention via the GUI might be needed. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780028 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/09032015231100.51cf187da...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk