[Aptitude-devel] keep virtual package installed

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Gentlemen, must I run a script
  p=linux-doc-2.6; aptitude purge ~o${p}_; aptitude install $p
daily, or is there a smarter way?

I want a workaround for Bugs 347284, 480060
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00558.html

You see linux-doc-2.6 is a virtual package that I want to "mark that I
want installed" if somehow possible, throwing away at the same time
older versions of things providing it that are no longer in the archive.

P.S., I only use the command line and never the curses interface (too
exciting for me.)