You could just install the proposed kernel and wait until that one trickles down to resolute proper. Bar any pullbacks, by that time the linux-generic package will just depend on the packages you’ve installed manually already, so the only thing left to do then, is to mark them as automatically installed:
sudo apt-mark auto linux-{image,headers}-7.0.0-26-generic
(see my posts in the other topic for some elaboration on the why)
I don’t know how long that takes, so I’ll “quote” the Debian maintainers’ reply on when the next stable is going to be released: “When it’s done.” 
You must be sitting in a pretty dark room for the sensor to react to that.