aptitude dist-upgrade

Сегодня узнал, чем отличается dist-upgrade от просто upgrade.
Оказывается, dist-upgrade может устанавливать новые пакеты, исходя из зависимостей обновляемых пакетов. А просто upgrade только обновляет существующие пакеты.

Kudos to you Steve, you're the first who manages to give that simple explanation about what

apt-get dist-upgrade

exactly is compared to the regular

apt-get upgrade

If I may try to rephrase: 'Apt-get dist-upgrade'ing also installs new packages brought in the chain of dependencies, whereas 'apt-get upgrade'ing only install newer versions of packages already installed. After a couple of years working with Debian, I never managed to exactly understand that difference. Would you believe I never found documentation who states this as simple?

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