[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1135084: aptitude: confused by a dependency on a package that becomes virtual
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Mon Apr 27 12:36:17 BST 2026
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-8.1
Severity: normal
I currently have texlive-full 2025.20260124-1 installed. This package
has a dependency on dvidvi, which is installed as a real package. But
in the next version of the packages, dvidvi becomes a virtual package,
provided by texlive-binaries:
Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2026.20260303.78225+ds-3
Replaces: dvidvi, [...]
Provides: dvidvi, [...]
Conflicts: dvidvi, [...]
while texlive-full 2026.20260328-4 still lists dvidvi as a dependency
(which will be satisfied, though).
I can upgrade texlive-binaries without any issue:
disset:~> aptitude install -s texlive-binaries
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea6 libptexenc1 libsynctex2 libtexlua53-5 texlive-binaries
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
[...]
(ditto via the TUI).
But if I want to upgrade texlive-full (from 2025.20260124-1 to
2026.20260328-4), either from the command line or via the TUI,
aptitude complains. By default, it proposes:
disset:~> aptitude install -s texlive-full
[...]
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
2) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
3) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
4) texlive-lang-chinese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
5) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
the next one being
Remove the following packages:
1) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
Keep the following packages at their current version:
2) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
3) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
4) texlive-lang-chinese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
5) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
and other ones proposing to remove up to 8 packages, like
Remove the following packages:
1) latex2html [2026+debian1-1 (now, testing, unstable)]
2) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
3) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
4) texlive-formats-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
5) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
6) texlive-lang-chinese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
7) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
8) texlive-science [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing)]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
9) texlive-latex-extra recommends texlive-fonts-recommended
10) texlive-lang-cjk recommends texlive-lang-chinese
11) texlive-fonts-extra recommends texlive-fonts-recommended
or downgrading many packages:
Downgrade the following packages:
1) context [2025.09.21.20251026+dfsg-1 (now, testing, unstable) -> 2024.04.
2) luametatex [2.11.08+ds-1 (now, testing, unstable) -> 2.11.02+really2.11.
3) texlive-base [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (stable)
4) texlive-bibtex-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2
5) texlive-extra-utils [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (
6) texlive-font-utils [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (s
7) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (
8) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.202503
9) texlive-formats-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2
10) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (stable)
11) texlive-games [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (stable
12) texlive-humanities [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (s
13) texlive-lang-arabic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (
14) texlive-lang-chinese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
15) texlive-lang-cjk [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (sta
16) texlive-lang-cyrillic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
17) texlive-lang-czechslovak [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.2025030
18) texlive-lang-english [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
19) texlive-lang-european [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
20) texlive-lang-french [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (
21) texlive-lang-german [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (
22) texlive-lang-greek [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (s
23) texlive-lang-italian [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
24) texlive-lang-japanese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
25) texlive-lang-korean [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (
26) texlive-lang-other [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (s
27) texlive-lang-polish [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (
28) texlive-lang-portuguese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309
29) texlive-lang-spanish [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1
30) texlive-latex-base [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (s
31) texlive-latex-base-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-
32) texlive-latex-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (
33) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309
34) texlive-latex-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.202503
35) texlive-luatex [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (stabl
36) texlive-metapost [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (sta
37) texlive-music [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (stable
38) texlive-pictures [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (sta
39) texlive-plain-generic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2
40) texlive-pstricks [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (sta
41) texlive-publishers [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (s
42) texlive-science [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-2 (stab
43) texlive-xetex [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2024.20250309-1 (stable
The expected resolution is currently the 28th!
Remove the following packages:
1) dvidvi [1.0-10.2 (now, stable, testing, unstable)]
Upgrade the following packages:
2) libkpathsea6 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now, testing) -> 2026.2026030
3) libptexenc1 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260303
4) libsynctex2 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260303
5) libtexlua53-5 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now, testing) -> 2026.202603
6) texlive-base [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (unstabl
7) texlive-bibtex-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5
8) texlive-binaries [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now, testing) -> 2026.202
9) texlive-extra-utils [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (
10) texlive-font-utils [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (u
11) texlive-formats-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5
12) texlive-games [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (unstab
13) texlive-humanities [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (u
14) texlive-lang-arabic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (
15) texlive-lang-cjk [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (uns
16) texlive-lang-cyrillic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
17) texlive-lang-czechslovak [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.2026032
18) texlive-lang-english [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
19) texlive-lang-european [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
20) texlive-lang-french [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (
21) texlive-lang-german [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (
22) texlive-lang-greek [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (u
23) texlive-lang-italian [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
24) texlive-lang-japanese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
25) texlive-lang-korean [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (
26) texlive-lang-other [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (u
27) texlive-lang-polish [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3 (
28) texlive-lang-portuguese [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328
29) texlive-lang-spanish [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-3
30) texlive-latex-base [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (u
31) texlive-latex-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (
32) texlive-latex-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.202603
33) texlive-luatex [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (unsta
34) texlive-metapost [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (uns
35) texlive-music [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (unstab
36) texlive-pictures [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (uns
37) texlive-plain-generic [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5
38) texlive-pstricks [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (uns
39) texlive-publishers [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (u
40) texlive-science [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-5 (unst
41) texlive-xetex [2025.20260124-1 (now, testing) -> 2026.20260328-4 (unstab
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 15.2.0
Compiled against:
apt version 7.0.0
NCurses version 6.6
libsigc++ version: 2.12.1
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 6.6.20251231
cwidget version: 0.5.18
Apt version: 7.0.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fb81125d000)
libapt-pkg.so.7.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.7.0 (0x00007fb810800000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fb811201000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fb8111cb000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb8111c3000)
libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007fb8110bb000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fb810680000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.90.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.90.0 (0x00007fb8110a1000)
libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fb810400000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb810000000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb810b0a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb810adc000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb80fe08000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb811080000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fb810ac8000)
liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fb8103cf000)
liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fb8103a3000)
libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fb8102d9000)
libudev.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fb80fdc0000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fb80fca5000)
libcrypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007fb80f600000)
libxxhash.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007fb81066c000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb81125f000)
libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fb810abc000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-8.1
ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.2.0
ii libboost-iostreams1.90.0 1.90.0-6
ii libc6 2.42-15
ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6+b3
ii libgcc-s1 16-20260425-1
ii libncursesw6 6.6+20251231-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.1-4+b1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-9+b1
ii libstdc++6 16-20260425-1
ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1
ii libxapian30 1.4.31-2
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.7
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn apt-xapian-index <none>
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.13-8.1
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.88
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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