what do you want to see in future apt versions ?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 7:20 PM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

I said "devel" but in the Arch world it's called "testing."


> 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.

Someone has to. The developers for example. And not just the
developers. I've seen bugs where users report problems with a package
from "testing." Or else new packages aren't tested before being
released for general use.