what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:43 PM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> 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.

Perhaps the "dist" in "dist-upgrade" is confusing, but apt/apt-get
aren't different from other package managers. dnf, pacman, yum (and
zypper, I assume) will upgrade you to the next/the devel release if
you enable that new release's package index.