Re:Debian 7.3 is out
by RexRollman on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:50PM
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How would you know when?
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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".
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.