what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[rikona]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 22:18:30 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.  

Yes, it does...

> 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.  

From some list msgs, it still does...

> I have yet to see any suggestion that is
> clear and unambiguous.  There is probably no ideal solution.  

how about my original alias suggestions as a starting point?
update current version [does just that]
update to new version  [does that instead]  or
update to new distribution

These use 'version' and 'new' rather than 'do something to
some distribution'. :-) Can we all agree that going from 16.4 to
18.4 is a 'new version'? If so, that may be more clear to many...

> 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.

The GUI is helpful. How many 'commands' does the GUI implement? If only
the 2 above, then aliases might be helpful to many. Super-users will
always want to do 5,6,,,9,12 complex things with the CLI. No need to
change those if much clarification can be done with just 2 aliases...