Let's say I installed version 2 of somepkg and discovered that it's broken (we all know Ubuntu doesn't ship broken packages, so let's just say this is installed from a PPA). I want to tell apt to ignore just version 2, so that it will fall back to version 1 but automatically update to version 3 if it comes along. Is it possible?
Pinning/holds seem to prevent any version change so that in my example I couldn't update to version 3 without removing the hold.