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doc: manual packages do not get upgraded from backports

On bullseye-backports, the freedombox-doc-en package is not being upgraded to keep up with freedombox package:

$ apt policy freedombox
freedombox:
  Installed: 21.8~bpo11+1
  Candidate: 21.8~bpo11+1
  Version table:
 *** 21.8~bpo11+1 500
        100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     21.4.4 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main armhf Packages

$ apt policy freedombox-doc-en
freedombox-doc-en:
  Installed: 21.4.4
  Candidate: 21.4.4
  Version table:
     21.8~bpo11+1 100
        100 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main armhf Packages
 *** 21.4.4 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Perhaps we need to specify each binary package in /etc/apt/preferences.d/50freedombox4.pref. I don't understand why this issue didn't show up before in buster-backports though.