On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 02:03:26 PM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 21 Oct 2020 at 09:40:37 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 20 oct 20, 10:44:17, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I agree, for an additional reason -- iiuc, if you are using an older > > > version of Debian, dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade to the current > > > version, which could cause problems. > > What do you mean by "older" and "current"? There's no reason to > suppose that sources.list has been touched. Perhaps the "dist-" > prefix is confusing¹, and makes you think there's a release > change involved. But one of the virtues of the apt-get command > line is its stability, hence its recommendation for scripting, > so that's unlikely to change.
I was thinking it could do something like (attempting to) migrate a system from, for example, Jessie to Buster ... > Are you not just compounding rhkramer's confusion? Ahh yes, thanks for straightening me out, I was confused!
