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dtech
As always, the point releases of Debian are mostly a collection of up-to-date packages. This has no impact on existing installations.
giancarlostoro
As long as you keep your current installation up to date, then this is true, otherwise this is usually a hint to update.
bandrami
The point releases are what remind me to run 'apt-get update && apt-get safe-upgrade'
chrj
What's apt-get safe-upgrade? You should be safe enough with just a regular apt-get upgrade.
kpcyrd
aptitude has a safe-upgrade, which doesn't remove packages unless they're unused.
pvaldes
Or the luxury of typing 'apt update' & 'apt upgrade' like a boss now and save some precious miliseconds of your life.

(otherwise cinnamon is broken since the release and latex is acting a little erratic also. In sid at least. You can't make an gnumelette without breaking some packages).

bandrami
It's aptitude. The point is I do this rarely enough that I have to read a man page each time...
0x0
They do ship additional non-security but important updates in point releases. For example, the qcontrol update was sorely needed for the proper operation of several armel-based NAS devices