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
With the current status where the following are available:
texlive-base 2026.20260527-1
texlive-bin 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
texlive-extra 2026.20260527-1
the following is still fine:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-binaries
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea6 libptexenc1 libsynctex-dev libsynctex2 libtexlua53-5 texlive-binaries
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 771 not upgraded.
but this is still buggy:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-full
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{u} fonts-hosny-amiri{u} texlive-games{u} texlive-humanities{u} texlive-lang-arabic{u}
texlive-lang-cyrillic{u} texlive-lang-czechslovak{u} texlive-lang-english{u} texlive-lang-european{u}
texlive-lang-french{u} texlive-lang-german{u} texlive-lang-italian{u} texlive-lang-polish{u}
texlive-lang-portuguese{u} texlive-lang-spanish{u} texlive-music{u} texlive-publishers{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
texlive-fonts-extra{b} texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-extra-links texlive-fonts-recommended{b}
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-full{b} texlive-humanities-doc texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra-doc{b} texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers-doc texlive-science-doc
15 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 747 not upgraded.
Need to get 3231 MB of archives. After unpacking 740 MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
texlive-latex-extra-doc : Breaks: texlive-xetex (< 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
texlive-full : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-bibtex-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-binaries (>= 2026.20260303) but 2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-extra-utils (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-font-utils (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-formats-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-games (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-humanities (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-arabic (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-chinese (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-cjk (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-cyrillic (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-english (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-european (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-french (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-german (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-greek (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-italian (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-japanese (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-korean (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-other (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-polish (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-portuguese (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-spanish (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-latex-base (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-luatex (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-metapost (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-music (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-pictures (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-plain-generic (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-pstricks (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-publishers (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-science (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-xetex (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
texlive-fonts-extra : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
texlive-fonts-recommended : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) fonts-hosny-amiri [1.003-6 (now, testing, unstable)]
2) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
3) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
4) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
5) texlive-games [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
6) texlive-humanities [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
7) texlive-lang-arabic [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
8) texlive-lang-cyrillic [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
9) texlive-lang-czechslovak [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
10) texlive-lang-english [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
11) texlive-lang-european [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
12) texlive-lang-french [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
13) texlive-lang-german [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
14) texlive-lang-italian [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
15) texlive-lang-polish [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
16) texlive-lang-portuguese [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
17) texlive-lang-spanish [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
18) texlive-latex-base-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
19) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
20) texlive-music [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
21) texlive-publishers [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
Upgrade the following packages:
22) libkpathsea6 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
23) libptexenc1 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
24) libsynctex-dev [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
25) libsynctex2 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
26) libtexlua53-5 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
27) texlive-binaries [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) -> 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
Since aptitude proposes to upgrade texlive-binaries, this should
have the same effect as the following:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-full texlive-binaries
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea6 libptexenc1 libsynctex-dev libsynctex2 libtexlua53-5 texlive texlive-base
texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-extra-links texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-formats-extra texlive-full texlive-games texlive-humanities texlive-humanities-doc
texlive-lang-arabic texlive-lang-chinese texlive-lang-cjk texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak
texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-greek
texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-japanese texlive-lang-korean texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish
texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc
texlive-luatex texlive-metapost texlive-metapost-doc texlive-music texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-plain-generic texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers texlive-publishers-doc
texlive-science texlive-science-doc texlive-xetex
58 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 719 not upgraded.
where there are no issues.
However, by just choosing aptitude's default suggestions, it should
now be possible to upgrade in 2 steps.