what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:05 PM 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.
>
> 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.

There's already "-t <release>", but you cannot install anything from a
release if you haven't updated the package index for that release.