On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 22:36:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > 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:
> > > 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 Debian 8 is obsolete; it doesn't even receive security updates. That't odd. I just booted up a 2354-package jessie system after 10 days and got 46 security updates and a new kernel (the latter requiring dist-upgrade, of course). Won't this continue happening until 2020-06-30? > dist-upgrade is most unlikely to bring it to its knees. I can't follow what the fuss is over whether to use upgrade or dist-upgrade. Normally I just upgrade whenever I'm told (by my cron job) that -d upgrade has downloaded something into the cache; if I'm then told that packages are being held back, I dist-upgrade. Cheers, David.
