Running purge-old-kernels today I can confirm that it wants to remove
the meta kernels:
$ sudo purge-old-kernels
[sudo] password for bdmurray:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbluray1 libubuntu-app-launch3 linux-headers-4.10.0-11 linux-tools-4.9.0-15
linux-tools-4.9.0-15-generic snap-confine thermald
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-generic* linux-headers-4.10.0-11-generic* linux-headers-generic*
linux-image-4.10.0-11-generic* linux-image-extra-4.10.0-11-generic*
linux-image-generic* linux-signed-generic* linux-signed-image-4.10.0-11-generic*
linux-signed-image-generic*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 233 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
$ apt-cache policy byobu
byobu:
Installed: 5.115-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 5.115-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 5.115-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Changed in: byobu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: byobu (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Tags added: zesty
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purge-old-kernels may purge meta kernel(s) and consequently stop
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