[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 08:47 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> The fact that "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't
> install a new package, foo, which is needed in Dapper but not in Breezy, is
> not a bug.  That isn't what apt-get dist-upgrade does, and we can't change
> its behaviour since it is used for other situations as well.  This is the
> root of the problem, using the same techniques both for incremental upgrades
> and for upgrades across releases.

Would it be possible (and make sense) to add a new action to
apt-get/aptitude/synaptic that implements the needed actions?

aptitude full-dist-upgrade