On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised > > > / confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: > > > required" -- I presume that is not redundant information, but at first > > > glance it seems so. > > > > At second glance you looked at > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary > > > > and the light dawned. > > > > > Anyway, I am just "fishing" for information on how dist-upgrade decides > > > which package is more important to install (when faced with such a > > > decision). > > > > > > I suppose I can live without knowing that ;-) > > > > I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on stable or unstable? > > I'm not the OP, but the place where I plan to use (apt-get) upgrade and not > dist-upgrade is Jessie (Debian 8).
Debian 8 is obsolete; it doesn't even receive security updates. dist-upgrade is most unlikely to bring it to its knees. -- Brian.
