what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Colin Law]

As I understand it dist-upgrade was changed to full-upgrade in an
attempt to remove at least some of the confusion which undeniably did
(and to some extent still does) exist.  dist-upgrade does tend to
suggest that the distribution may be changed, whereas full-upgrade is
intended to suggest that everything is upgraded.  It can still be
mis-interpreted however.  I have yet to see any suggestion that is
clear and unambiguous.  There is probably no ideal solution.  Ubuntu
does provide the GUI upgrade system which should remove all these
issues from those that do not know the full details of the command
line usage.

Colin