Harald Arnesen wrote: > Steve Litt [2017-05-13 17:03]: > > > I never dist-upgrade. From what I hear, it breaks things. If I feel the > > need to dist-upgrade, it's probably time to back up, reformat the > > disks, and clean-install a later version. > > If you can't dist-upgrade, it's probably time to find another distribution.
I triggered this discussion by mentioning dist-upgrade, however dist-upgrade isn't relevant to solving problems with Jessie. I was recalling previous experience with the infinitely rolling updates of *unstable*, where a two-step process of upgrade then dist-upgrade was less likely to break things than dist-upgrade alone. I stand by my original suggestion: that reportbug could help reduce the noise of bug reports on outdated packges by advising users to 'apt-get upgrade' (or in the case of unstable 'apt-get upgrade' followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade') and rechecking the behavior before filing. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
