The rationale given in this bug report for including aptitude by default
is incorrect. For several years now, apt will directly track the
information about which packages on the system were automatically
installed and can be safely removed, and aptitude merely uses this same
information. So removing aptitude from the default install is not
accidental, and looks to me like a correct thing to do since we
recommend the GUI interfaces for package management on the desktop.
We could mention the removal in the release notes, but I don't believe
the user impact here is very high at all in practice. Any user who was
using aptitude before surely knows how to install it again if they
prefer that interface, and it's not an interface that is being
recommended in any of the Ubuntu documentation.
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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aptitude not installed by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655085
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