From 3f85804a3586670dc61b5603eafc3f330f8827ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ruthven <puck@catalystcloud.nz>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:50:54 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore Debian kernel packages with rc status

When 'apt autoremove' is used with kernel packages, they're set to rc which is
Remove, leave Conf-files. Ignose those.
---
 include/tests_ports_packages | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/tests_ports_packages b/include/tests_ports_packages
index 3711ac89..36af206b 100644
--- a/include/tests_ports_packages
+++ b/include/tests_ports_packages
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ EOF
         if [ "${DPKGBINARY}" ]; then
             TESTED=1
             KERNEL_PKG_NAMES="linux-image-[0-9]|raspberrypi-kernel|pve-kernel-[0-9]|linux-odroid-5422"
-            KERNELS=$(${DPKGBINARY} -l 2> /dev/null | ${GREPBINARY} -E "${KERNEL_PKG_NAMES}" | ${WCBINARY} -l)
+            KERNELS=$(${DPKGBINARY} -l 2> /dev/null | ${GREPBINARY} -E "${KERNEL_PKG_NAMES}" | ${GREPBINARY} -v ^rc | ${WCBINARY} -l)
             if [ ${KERNELS} -eq 0 ]; then
                 LogText "Result: found no kernels from dpkg -l output, which is unexpected"
             elif [ ${KERNELS} -gt 5 ]; then