what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:13, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, hands up, all those who do not think that, and, have never thought
> that, dist-upgrade and full-upgrade, refer to upgrading a Linux
> distribution to the latest version.
>
> I do not see many hands up.

Well, you didn't give us long.

*Holds up hand*

I do not think "dist-upgrade" is confusing and I never did.

Why not? Because I read the fine manual.

apt upgrade: upgrade a package, or if none specified, all packages to
latest version, but do not add new packages or libraries.

apt dist-uprade: upgrade the whole distribution to the latest version
OF THAT RELEASE OF THE DISTRO, adding any new dependencies if
required.

Your sources.list file specifies what distro you are using, and if you
do not change the version in there, you will not and CANNOT get a
newer major version of the distribution, on *buntu, Debian, Mint,
whatever.

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