I worked around this for now by using https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/404444/how-to-make-apt-ignore-unfulfilled-dependencies-of-installed-package/404449
$ equivs-control controlfile.control edit package name to: openjdk-11-jre-headless $ equivs-build controlfile.control $ sudo dpkg -i openjdk-11-jre-headless_1.0_all.deb edit package name to: openjdk-11-jre $ equivs-build controlfile.control $ sudo dpkg -i openjdk-11-jre_1.0_all.deb