diff --git a/profiles/features/prefix/package.use.mask b/profiles/features/prefix/package.use.mask
index 9d5a82e0d829b..12bba1c5f9e85 100644
--- a/profiles/features/prefix/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/features/prefix/package.use.mask
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ x11-base/xorg-server elogind
 # depends on systemd
 sys-apps/ipmitool openbmc
 
-# Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (2020-06-07)
-# installing kernels has no business in Prefix
-sys-apps/debianutils installkernel
-
 # Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org> (2019-08-20)
 # avoid gnome-extra/gnome-user-share, which depends on systemd.
 gnome-base/gnome-extra-apps share
diff --git a/sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14.ebuild b/sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14-r1.ebuild
similarity index 91%
rename from sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14.ebuild
rename to sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14-r1.ebuild
index ade4ad363a49e..fc46992478ea8 100644
--- a/sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-5.14-r1.ebuild
@@ -12,11 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/d/${PN}/${PN}_${PV}.tar.xz"
 LICENSE="BSD GPL-2 SMAIL"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x86-linux"
-IUSE="+installkernel static"
-
-PDEPEND="
-	installkernel? ( sys-kernel/installkernel )
-"
+IUSE="static"
 
 PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.4.2-no-bs-namespace.patch )
 
diff --git a/sys-apps/debianutils/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/debianutils/metadata.xml
index 42573629d611c..b0d83aa2e4894 100644
--- a/sys-apps/debianutils/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-apps/debianutils/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,4 @@
 		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="installkernel">
-			Install /sbin/installkernel script (for Linux).
-			installkernel is required whenever a kernel will be installed via make install
-		</flag>
-	</use>
 </pkgmetadata>