Bug#1135063: texlive-full: should no longer depend on dvidvi, which is now a virtual package

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2026 02:37:49 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex
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On 2026-04-27 23:39:23 +0200, PreuÃe, Hilmar wrote:
> The recommended way to do upgrades is apt or apt-get. I'm sorry to
> hear that aptitude can't handle the situation.

apt / apt-get does not always install Recommends, which can yield
a somewhat broken system:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845299
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951638

(it seems that aptitude also has similar issues, but less often).

In complex cases (e.g. when aptitude refuses to upgrade a package),
I sometimes do "apt install -s ..." to see how an upgrade should be
resolved. When apt does not signal an issue, I go back to aptitude,
giving hints on other packages to install (or remove), but sometimes
this still blocks due to a broken Recommends, which apt did not see.
So aptitude is safer.