Confirmed (on 64-bit system:
root@imerabox:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-3.10-10.towo-siduction-amd64
linux-headers-3.10-9.towo-siduction-amd64
The following packages have been kept back:
cpp-4.8 g++-4.8 gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base libasan0 libatomic1 libgcc-4.8-dev
libgcc1 libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1 libquadmath0 libstdc++-4.8-dev
libstdc++6 libtsan0 libvirt-bin libvirt0 xserver-xorg-core
The following packages will be upgraded:
gcj-4.8-jre-lib giblib1 info install-info iproute iproute2
libboost-date-time1.54.0 libboost-system1.54.0 libgcj14 libgtop2-7
libgtop2-common liblastfm1 libnet-dns-perl libnotify4 libqjson0 manpages
plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba texlive-base texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-luatex
21 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 85.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 57.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
It is the linux-headers packages, not the kernel images. But the headers are needed to build kernel-modules or software packages.
32-bit system does not have this issue.