On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 10:08:21AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 01:41:14PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > That will work: you might also want to apt-get purge > > linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 > > but you've done the main thing. > > Note that purging 6.1.0-14 will also remove the linux-image-amd64 > metapackage, which has a hard dependency on it (at the moment). > > > That works: when the new kernel (presumably 6.1.0-15) comes out, that > > will be installed appropriately. > > Only if you reinstall the kernel metapackage as soon as you notice that > there's been another point release. > > This is not a criticism of Andrew's post. I'm just reminding everyone, > including myself, that we're going to have to remember to do this extra > step.
In order to avoid having to remember to re-install the metapackage at a future date, I've installed the prior version from snapshot: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20231002T025920Z/pool/main/l/linux-signed-amd64/linux-image-amd64_6.1.55-1_amd64.deb