Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Liam Proven]

On 2 October 2017 at 14:22, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding, from the ensuing discussion, is that the next
> suggested command;
>  sudo apt full-upgrade
> leads to a distribution upgrade.

No it does not. You understand incorrectly.

Do you not think it would be silly for the designers of an OS to make
it possible to move from a supported release to a potentially
unsupported (or short-term) one _accidentally_ by a single command?

Does that seem like a sensible thing to do?

I submit that no, it does not, and no Linux I know of does that.
Rolling-release distros, yes, but then there are no stable/unstable
versions, so it is academic.

I suggest that you think about such beliefs or assumptions and
consider whether they seem sensible or not -- as a way of verifying
your own beliefs and prompting you to check. It's how I test my own.

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