what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:42 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

Yes.


> 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.

I've never used it, but I've used '-o
Dpkg::Options::="--force-downgrade"' with 'install
<package>=<version>' for a similar purpose.