what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:54:17PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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`.
> 
'apt dist-upgrade' works perfectly well, I just tried it.  The apt man
page doesn't bother to tell you that it's the same thing which is a
pity.

-- 
Chris Green