so, I made a backup, edited /etc/apt/sources.list and than I ran:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot now
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot now
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt clean
sudo aptitude search '~i(!~ODebian)' - this gave me about 30 packages, which I removed
before the upgrade, I had 872 packages installed
now I have 1130 packages, which is 258 more than before.
also my footprint is about 1 GB more.
is this as expected ??
is there something, I can do about this ??