[BGZq7]

dist-upgrade is more likely to break things because it can uninstall packages. So it's sometimes useful to run a plain upgrade first just so there will be fewer packages in the dist-upgrade. This lets you review the dist-upgrade output closer and perhaps decide to cancel it if you need to make some changes before it's safe to run. If you are going to ignore the output or just run with -y, there's no reason to split them.