what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:06:18 -0700, rikona wrote:
>On Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:13:01 -0400
>Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 09:10 -0700, rikona wrote:  
>> > The current word usage is confusing, and, yes, everyone can learn
>> > to use confusing commands, but why not make them less confusing.
>> > This comes up often on the list - that's a good clue that it is not
>> > clear.    
>> 
>> Changing documentation is straightforward.
>> 
>> Changing commands is hard.  
>
>How about installing an alias with each distro & update? Is that too
>hard to do? That way, both sides would be happy. :-) Do the super-users
>not have the talent to come up with an easy way? :-)

What aliases do you recommend? How do users know about them? Assuming
there should be aliases available and assuming users know that there
are those alias commands, then users still need to understand why an
upgrade with or without removing conflicting outdated packages could be
wanted. Release upgrades also require some understand, not just a less
confusing name. 

alias release-upgrade="sudo do-release-upgrade"
alias overhasty-lts-release-upgrade="sudo do-release-upgrade -d"
alias package-upgrade="sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade"
alias package-upgrade-no-remove="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade"

What ever you name them, you still need to have skills to understand
them.