Bug#995466: linux-image-rt-amd64: Appears in "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" on aptitude

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:24:01PM -0300, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote:
> Package: linux-image-rt-amd64
> Version: 5.10.46-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> In aptitude this package appears in "Obsolete and Locally Created
> Packages", as well as the linux-image-5.10.0-8-rt-amd64 package
> versioned below. It seems that both of them should not be there since
> they were installed from aptitude and there is no other kernel version
> installed or running here.
> 
> Now I tried to reinstall it and it says that a source to that download
> version can't be found. There are newer versions of kernel available,
> but no "preemption real time" patches set.

Yes that's correct. The reason is that the rt featureset has not (yet)
been re-enabled after the rebase to 5.14.y series. It might be
possible in a later upload if the version available upstream at
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.14/
will apply on top of the version.

Regards,
Salvatore