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Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼
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I've been running Debian since 2007 and never understood the point of
apt upgrade.When I update, I want the updated version for everything on my system.
I don't want to arbitrarily hold back packages just because a dependency changed. I'll decide for myself if that's an issue in my deployment. And Debian is generally very good at keeping everything running exactly the same way between releases.
I pin the release by name (not "stable") and then
apt dist-upgradealways.I've always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What's the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?
none.