what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 18:25 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> 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.

pacman it the tool of Arch Linux, a _real_ rolling release. There isn't
a "next" release package index, since there is no "next" release.

Apart from the stable repositories Arch Linux has got staging and
testing repositories. It doesn't make much sense to enable the testing
repositories, but it could be done. Enabling the staging repository
makes no sense at all, you could eventually install the kernel from
staging. Due to the purpose of this repo anything else is much likely
broken. However, there never is a freeze. The staging repo never becomes
testing and the testing repo never becomes stable. Packages could move
from one to the other repository. It doesn't matter what repositories
you have enabled, the release is always rolling, rolling, rolling.