what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 09:41:20 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>Colin Law wrote:
>>The tool apt is not, under normal circumstances, used to change
>>versions of the distribution.  That is done with do-release-upgrade.  
>
>The ongoing need for the countless times this type of statement has
>to be made is the issue some of us have been trying to help with in
>response to the request for future apt version suggestions. Hopefully
>this thread will highlight the need for a change to address this.

The lower level apt is a commandline package manager shared with
Debian. The do do-release-upgrade Python script is not shared with
Debian, it's managing an Ubuntu flavour release upgrade on a higher
level.

Since the official documentations of a Debian release upgrade process
are quite long, here a shorter alternative, that already gives an
impression about the complexity:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-debian-9-stretch-to-debian-10-buster

This is nothing that should be done by a lower level tool, such a apt.

FWIW all suggestions to this list are null and void, suggestions are
recognized by the maintainer when done at
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-see-in-apt/16588 .

I don't see anybody of you helping with this issue there.