what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 00:58:15 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:57 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Neither. Ever. You cannot upgrade Ubuntu versions with any form of
>> the `apt-get` or `apt` command, ever, under any circumstances.  
>
>You can, but it's strongly recommended to use "do-release-upgrade"
>because it's more fault-tolerant and less brutal.

Hi Tom,

don't confuse users ;). You know better. You can not unintentionally
upgrade to the next release. To do a release upgrade by using apt or
apt-get you first need to change the repository sources list.

Btw. I wonder if "--allow-downgrades" does anything at all. I noticed
that it doesn't allow downgrades on my 16.04 install, when I wrote
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2020-June/011347.html ,
so I needed to write the odd workaround.

Regards,
Ralf