Instead:The result was an obscenely huge Wheezy. I got stuff, I didn't ask for, like the latest Iceweasel. Perhaps, I should have stopped at minimal system upgrade - will check that later on. Although, a question is nagging me - when something is removed from the original ISO during "reverse engineering" - is that removal reflected in sources.list? I will continue experimenting with apt-get and dpkg and do 'selective' upgrades. I'm more interested in upgrading via installing self-compiled stuff from Debian sources.
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apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
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apt-cache search linux-image
apt-get install linux-image-******* - for selected version
apt-get install localepurge - only selected licale installed, others purged
apt-get install --not-install-recommends <SELECTED-MODULE-OR-PROGRAM>
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apt-get install network-manager
apt-get install xserver-xorg
apt-get install xorg
apt-get install <PREFERRED-DESKTOP-ENVIRONMENT>
ad so on (for example only):
apt-get install wget
apt-get install mc
apt-get install xxkb
apt-get install leafpad
apt-get install gpicview
apt-get install dillo
It's certainly a longer path than apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade.
But greater control and as a result of the smaller size of the resulting distribution.