Scary upgrade thing

[Derek Broughton]

Pawel Kowalak wrote:

> On Friday 14 October 2005 14:36, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Always do apt-get dist-upgrade.
>>
>> I'd disagree slightly - I think he was right to try "upgrade" first -
>> because it won't do anything scary.  In this case, though, it wouldn't do
>> anything at all (probably because there's a libc transition in there).
> 
> dist-upgrade won't do anything scary too. 

It _shouldn't_ when you're upgrading old-stable to new-stable.  But when
you're upgrading a testing version it quite often can do very scary things.

> You just have to read the output 
> and check if everything will be ok after the upgrade (eg. if there is 100
> packages to remove, better check it manually).

And you don't think that's scary for the average user?  This specific
dist-upgrade wanted to remove 78 packages.  I'd consider that scary enough
even for an expert.  It's removing ALL of KDE for heaven's sake.  I suspect
his sources are not pristine.  It's NOT going to do a safe upgrade.
-- 
derek