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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] excalibur upgrade fails (dependncy failure)
Le 05/11/2025 à 21:43, ael via Dng a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 01:55:53PM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
>>>>    # aptitude --full-resolver -y
>> I am having apparent success witn the command # apt-get
>> dist-upgrade. It seems to be getting the excalibur packages. I'm
>> curious why # apt-get dist upgrade works but # apt upgrade does
>> not.
> It does what it says on the tin: "dist-upgrade" -- upgrades to the next
> distribution (subject to sources...)
>
> apt upgrade stays on the current distribution. apt full-upgrade is the
> equivalent to dist-upgrade and allows a new distribution. Roughly.


<rant>

    Ah! I always wondered what apt brought in that was better than
apt-get. Is there anything other than a different and misleading wording?

</rant>

--     Didier