Advice taken, thank you. Will wait for the all clear. BTW - This is what my dist-upgrade would add/upgrade tonight:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libclass-method-modifiers-perl libdata-perl-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libimport-into-perl
libmoo-perl libmoox-handlesvia-perl libmoox-late-perl librole-tiny-perl libstrictures-perl
libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libtype-tiny-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common grub-common grub-efi grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-pc-bin
grub2-common icedove libcurses-perl libdatetime-timezone-perl libgconf-2-4 libgconf2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgnupg-interface-perl libhunspell-1.3-0 liblsmash1 libqt4-dbus libqt4-declarative
libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-dev-bin libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libsdl1.2debian libudisks2-0 python-apt python-apt-common
python3-apt qdbus qt4-linguist-tools qt4-qmake qtcore4-l10n tzdata tzdata-java udisks udisks2
52 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.