Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Probably due to a s/apt-get/apt/ the minimal upgrade section claims
> 'apt upgrade' doesn't install new packages.
>
> While this shouldn't create any problems in practice, it might still
> surprise some users, so it should be fixed (eventually). Attached a
> minimal patch addressing this.
Oh, that's annoying.
> Slightly more intrusive: move the mention about new libraries from
> 'apt full-upgrade' a few paragraphs further down. I can come up with a
> patch if desired.
>
> Alternatively the command could also be switched back to 'apt-get' in
> order to get the minimal upgrade to be as minimal as possible ;)
Well, wasn't that was the point of having a "minimal" stage in the
first place? So probably if we're going to keep that section it
should do what it says it does. And until and unless apt develops a
flag to make it behave the old way, that seems to mean we should go
back to prescribing "apt-get upgrade".
I was also wondering how likely it is that "apt full-upgrade" will
leave things held back and need to be helped out by aptitude (as
mentioned at the end of 4.4.5). But I ran out of un-upgraded systems
to do test-runs on.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
