On 2025-12-18, John Hasler wrote: > Once many years ago upgrading dpkg first was recommended. The reason > for doing so is long gone but there's probably a "howto" floating around > on the Web that says to do it.
If you upgrade with the 2 steps recommended by debian (apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs then apt full-upgrade) the first step upgrade apt and al. So no need to do it explicitely.
