This was indeed a cross-platform bug, for which the patch resolved the days-long issue with apt as described for me, running Linux Mint 20.2 (Uma). If not for the patch I would not have been able to apply my latest kernel update deb package.
This was indeed a cross-platform bug, for which the patch resolved the days-long issue with apt as described for me, running Linux Mint 20.2 (Uma). If not for the patch I would not have been able to apply my latest kernel update deb package.