On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 13:33:09 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > In > https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes.en.txt > it says > "Please note that using apt-get is not recommended for the upgrade > from etch to lenny. If you do not have aptitude installed you are > recommended to install it first. > ... > # aptitude safe-upgrade > ... > # aptitude dist-upgrade > "
That's VERY old. The algorithms used by apt-get were improved after that point, and apt-get became the recommended tool for release upgrades. The recommendation has now switched to apt, though I'm not convinced there's any significant difference between apt-get and apt at this point other than the cosmetics and the automatic .deb file removal.
