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Re:Debian 7.3 is out by guipsp on Sunday December 15, 2013 @07:08PM (#6911745)
Well, sometimes you need to dist-upgrade, even when not switching distros.
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Re:Debian 7.3 is out by RexRollman on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:50PM (#6912210)
How would you know when?
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Re:Debian 7.3 is out by prg318 on Sunday December 15, 2013 @09:43PM (#6912429)
Some packages will be held back by apt-get until you "dist-upgrade" them and apt-get will notify you of the held back packages when you apt get "upgrade".
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Re:Debian 7.3 is out by ars on Sunday December 15, 2013 @09:46PM (#6912443)
If you get a lot of packages that it tries to uninstall. That's basically what dist-upgrade does: tries to uninstall the least number of packages to allow the update through.

It never happens with a point release though - they are careful about that.

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