Bug#1073119: apt: Clarify dist-upgrade & full-upgrade are identical, and pick one as preferred, in man pages

2024-06-13 Thread Roy Orbitson
On 13/6/24 20:08, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Well yes that is intentional, dist-upgrade is a misleading name, so the more user-friendly apt(8) tool has it renamed to full-upgrade, but of course we keep muscle memory compatibility modes. There is no suggestion to change the commands, themselves

Bug#1073119: apt: Clarify dist-upgrade & full-upgrade are identical, and pick one as preferred, in man pages

2024-06-12 Thread Roy Orbitson
Package: apt Version: 2.7.14build2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The man pages do not make it clear that the full-upgrade and dist-upgrade commands are aliases that perform the same operation. In doc/apt.8.xml, only full-upgrade is mentioned but apt accepts both. In doc/apt-get.8.xml, full-u