Bug#65262: do as I say, not as you think I ought

[Zooko Ozoko <zooko@imp.mad-scientist.com>]

I'm having the same problem -- I want to install a few packages that depend on
python without installing python (because actuallu I have installed python2 and
have symlinks `/usr/bin/python -> /etc/alternatives/python -> /usr/bin/python2').

I want apt to stop automatically marking for removal things which have unmet
dependencies, if I have explicitly marked them to be kept.

Regards,

Zooko

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux imp 2.2.18 #2 Sat Jan 27 16:20:46 PST 2001 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
hi  libc6                        2.2.2-4     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
hi  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.3-10 The GNU stdc++ library