Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:12:34PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Long gone are the days where a `apt-get upgrade` has broken my system
> (knock on wood) and while I do inspect dist-upgrades a little more
> carefully, they are usually pretty reliable too.

FWIW, I have come to believe that nobody should use 'apt-get upgrade' as
a general rule.  In particular, since it tries its best to install as
much as it can under the constraint that it never installs new packages
or removes installed ones, it will carry merrily on without installing
any new Recommends introduced by the upgrade set, and you will never
hear about them again unless some other package starts recommending the
same target packages.

Just using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' all the time, or something with closer
semantics to that, is better.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]