what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 14:16, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Further, do-release-upgrade would never upgrade 18.04 to 19.10, but
only to 20.04.

Colin