Hi all, Le mercredi 21 décembre 2022, 21:37:45 CET Marc Haber a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:50:45PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Marc Haber - 21.12.22, 12:00:39 CET: > > > > Stop using *dist-*upgrade by DEFAULT. > > > > > > *AMEN* to that. > > > > I usually do "dist-upgrade", but then look carefully what it is about to > > do. If I don't like that, I only to "upgrade". > > > > Of course one can argue it is safer to do it the other way around. > > P.S. dist-upgrade is as deprecated as it could be, it's not even in the > man page any more
That can be correct or incorrect depending on which manpage you’re looking at. :) dist-upgrade is an argument for apt-get while full-upgrade is for apt. I’d like to recommend using « apt upgrade » which has a slightly different behaviour than apt-get : it will upgrade already installed packages but also install new packages where necessary (which apt-get upgrade won’t do). This will leave full-upgrade with less things to do and for me to review. The only remaining packages should have a note in their changelog about doing a split, replacing another package or adding a Breaks/Replace condition. I regularly check this when I see non obvious removals (and by obvious I really only mean libfooN+1 replacing libfooN). Happy hacking, -- Aurélien