Would it work to just mark libtinfo5 as 'keep' until after the dist- upgrade? See _test_and_warn_on_nvidia_and_no_sse() in DistUpgradeQuirks.py for an example. I haven't tested it, but it would be like 3 lines of code instead of backporting apt.
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