Yes, or full-upgrade as it's now more correctly called.Is a dist-upgrade the way to go?
The normal "upgrade" command will upgrade all installed packages that have updates available - UNLESS that upgrade will require the installation of another package that isn't already installed, OR the upgrade requires removal of a package.
A good example of this is the various kernel packages where the linux-image-rpi-v8 package (for example) depends on the latest linux-image-X.Y.ZZ+rpt-rpi-v8 package. Upgrading linux-image-rpi-v8 from version 1:6.6.62-1+rpt1 to version 1:6.6.74-1+rpt1 will require a new package called linux-image-6.6.74+rpt-rpi-v8 to be installed. apt won't do that without a full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade).
It's part of Debian's "stability" mindset.
Statistics: Posted by rpdom — Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:39 am