what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Bret Busby]

On 04/06/2020, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2020, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> there is a poll from the apt maintainer over at the
>> Ubuntu Community Hub ...
>>
>> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-see-in-apt/16588
>>
>> i thought it is worth forwarding it here for greater awareness (please
>> comment at the community hub though, not here)
>>
>> ciao
>> 	oli
>>
>
> Unfortunate that it requires javascript, discouraging use of the facility.
>
> Perhaps, clearer commands, so that apt-get dist-upgrade gets replaced
> with something that does not appear to mean that the distribution will
> be upgraded to the latest version?
>
> Also, possibly (and, this would need to be done for backports for
> previous versions?) an option to upgrade to an incremental version,
> so, for example, for a user running 16.04, when it gets close to End
> Of Life, the availability of a command
> apt-get version-upgrade (a new name for a command, or a new command) -18.04
> (then, when that action is completed,
> apt-get version-upgrade -20.04
>
> I suggest that such a new command would be useful and helpful.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............

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Bret Busby
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