what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 14:05, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/6/20 5:58 PM, Tom H wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:57 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:39, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I am only one of many, who have found the commands confusing, which
> >>> is why the questions about whether those two (dist-upgrade and
> >>> full-upgrade) will institute a version upgrade, keep occurring on
> >>> this list.
> >> 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.
> >
> Good morning,
>
> The thing I would like to see added is:
>
> -Option <active release>
>
> Where active release could be the release wanted. This would allow a
> user to specify the release desired. Currently active are (I believe)
> 19.10 and 20.04 LTS. I am currently at 18.04, I would not want to go to
> 19.10 but to 20. 04 LTS.

The tool apt is not, under normal circumstances, used to change
versions of the distribution.  That is done with do-release-upgrade.
I believe that has been mentioned a number of times in this thread.

Colin

>
> Just my $0.02USD.
>
> Jay
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