what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:20:37PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
However simply running the script /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade does
take you to a newer major version.  How is the naive[ish] user
supposed to tell the difference between:-

    apt dist-upgrade

and:-

    do-release-upgrade

I think dist-upgrade should be renamed (or an alias should be added)
to something like 'dep-upgrade' as that's what it does, it sorts out
dependencies.

-- 
Chris Green