what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 19:27:14 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>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?

I guess the thread is about
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man8/apt.8.html .

apt provides "upgrade" and "full-upgrade".

The option "dist-upgrade" is not really misleading. If you replace the
repositories of Ubuntu release a, by the repositories of Ubuntu release
b, it actually would be the option to upgrade the distribution from one
to another release. And historically it maybe was used to do it, maybe
to upgrade from one to another Debian release.