Anilrgowda

Question
was told on the #debian channel at irc.freenode.org that I could do an apt-get dist-upgrade *without changing my sources.list*, which does not exactly chime well with what's said here at 5.2:

http://debid.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch-woody.en.html

Given that i followed the IRC advice and this is my current sources.list


deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main


do you think i should apply the changes to that file after the fac

Soln
When doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' Debian will upgrade the whole distro to the latest release that you defined in apt-source.list so you will upgrade EVERY package to what is current in the stable branch of Debian.


Since you are going from stable branches in your sources list, you should be ok doing a dist-upgrade. There are some people who always do an apt-get dist-upgrade all the time with little or no problems.