Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

From	cbannister@slingshot.co.nz
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch
Date	2017-03-27 18:00 +0200
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:07:45AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>   because i keep a second bootable partition a
> few versions back i am a bit more brave/stupid
> at times and just do the usual routine:
> 
> =====
> 
>   $ apt-get update
>   $ apt-get upgrade
> 
>   # and then see what is held back before doing the

I suggest doing:

apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs

just before:

>   $ apt-get dist-upgrade

See:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00279.html

:)

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They have the power to make the innocent guilty 
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
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Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
  Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-03-04 23:20 +0100
    Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 01:50 +0100
      Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-05 15:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-03-27 18:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 21:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch kAt <giathnygeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-27 23:40 +0200
            Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-03-28 00:00 +0200
              Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-28 19:20 +0200
    Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-05 04:30 +0100
      Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-06 03:00 +0100

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