On 1/26/16, Jochen Spieker <m...@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.>