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Well, sometimes you need to dist-upgrade, even when not switching distros.

• RexRollman 13y ago
  How would you know when?
  • prg318 13y ago
    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".
  • ars 13y ago
    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.