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Remember you have to say apt dist-upgrade to get the minor version bump.
Um, do you? I don't seem to need to, never had except for major release updates and changing sources.
Just now;
root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.5
Then "apt update" and "apt upgrade" followed by "reboot" and
root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.6
(My history)
497 apt update
498 cat /etc/os-release
499 apt upgrade
500 reboot
501 uname -a
502 cat /etc/os-release
503 history
Afaik apt-get upgrade would not add or remove packages, where dist-upgrade would. However apt upgrade will install new packages but not remove any. Where full-upgrade (new naming, but dist-upgrade is also kept for the same function) will also remove packages.
I prefer-
aptitude safe-upgrade
dee bee yan
So that's why my system was suddenly pulling a hundred something packages when I randomly check for update.
Good one.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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