Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could offer some clarity on how best to apply patches on Debian derived systems? There are so many options across apt-get and aptitude... I cannot make sense of them all:

  apt-get upgrade
  apt-get dist-upgrade
  apt-get safe-upgrade
  aptitude upgrade
  aptitude safe-upgrade
  aptitude full-upgrade

The man pages tell about the different options, but I don't know if removing packages to resolve dependencies is a good thing or not.

Then I found the link below[1] explaining that 'aptitude' is the tool to use on Debian while other information[2] suggests that 'apt-get' is the tool to use so I'm confused and hoping some of you generous folks could provide some insight here or at least admit you are as confused as I am.

Thanks

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html
[2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade
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