what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:32, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

It has.

It is not and never was `apt dist-upgrade`. It was `apt-get dist-upgrade`.

This has been replaced with `apt full-upgrade`.

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