/boot too small?

I just tried an apt upgrade and got the following error:

Warning: More space needed in /boot than available: 188MB > 166MB, installations may fail
Continue anyway? [y/N]

I canceled for now but this seems serious? I can’t update my kernel now apparently.

When you do apt upgrade do you happen to have a message in there that tells you something along the lines of “the following packages can be autoremoved and are no longer required”?

What is the output of the following command on your machine:

dpkg -l "linux-image-*"
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ah, yes. cleaning up old packages fixed it. Thanks

While cleaning allowed you to work around the issue, there is still a problem with how apt computes free space for the kernel in /boot. For those interested in the details, here is the Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/1085184

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