Attempting to remove iw results in attempted removal of the kernel.

[Philip Llewelyn Davies]

root@eleanor:~/work# apt purge iw
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  intel-microcode iucode-tool libnl-genl-3-200 wireless-regdb
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  crda* iw* linux-generic-hwe-20.04* linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04* linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-27-generic* linux-modules-extra-5.13.0-28-generic*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 6 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 516 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

root@eleanor:~/work# apt-mark manual linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04
linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04 set to manually installed.

root@eleanor:~/work# apt-mark manual linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-27-generic linux-modules-extra-5.13.0-28-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-27-generic set to manually installed.
linux-modules-extra-5.13.0-28-generic set to manually installed.

root@eleanor:~/work# apt purge iw
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  intel-microcode iucode-tool libnl-genl-3-200 wireless-regdb
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  crda* iw* linux-generic-hwe-20.04* linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04* linux-modules-extra-5.11.0-27-generic* linux-modules-extra-5.13.0-28-generic*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 6 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 516 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: iw 5.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-28.31~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Feb 22 19:34:53 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-02-16 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819.1)
SourcePackage: iw
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)