On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 11:10 PM Aurélien COUDERC <couc...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Le mercredi 21 décembre 2022, 21:37:45 CET Marc Haber a écrit : > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:50:45PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Marc Haber - 21.12.22, 12:00:39 CET: > > > > > Stop using *dist-*upgrade by DEFAULT. > > > > > > > > *AMEN* to that. > > > > > > I usually do "dist-upgrade", but then look carefully what it is about to > > > do. If I don't like that, I only to "upgrade". > > > > > > Of course one can argue it is safer to do it the other way around. > > > > P.S. dist-upgrade is as deprecated as it could be, it's not even in the > > man page any more > > That can be correct or incorrect depending on which manpage you’re looking > at. :) > dist-upgrade is an argument for apt-get while full-upgrade is for apt. > > I’d like to recommend using « apt upgrade » which has a slightly different > behaviour than apt-get : it will upgrade already installed packages but also > install new packages where necessary (which apt-get upgrade won’t do). > > This will leave full-upgrade with less things to do and for me to review. The > only remaining packages should have a note in their changelog about doing a > split, replacing another package or adding a Breaks/Replace condition. I > regularly check this when I see non obvious removals (and by obvious I really > only mean libfooN+1 replacing libfooN). >
Hi Aurlien, In 2017 I told my co-worker that I will continue to use apt-get which I still do. IIRC these days the Debian upgrade manuals announced the usage of apt. It is a sort of satisfaction to read that apt behaves (in certain scenarios) differently. Yes, the man-page of apt-get lists "dist-upgrade". I remember the discussion about apt(-get) VS. aptitude in Debian and sidux forums. But that was 15 years ago. So, apps might change like time did. Thanks. Regards, -Sedat-