Ensure that gcc, wifi-related packages are not installed on Xenial on upgrade

[eloquence]

In #3965, @kushaldas provided the following list of installed packages:

In the default xenial app VM (based on libvirt_staging_xenial_app_staging):

- acl	Access control list utilities
- adwaita-icon-theme	default icon theme of GNOME (small subset)
- at-spi2-core	Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (dbus core)
- bcache-tools	bcache userspace tools
- btrfs-tools	Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem utilities
- cloud-guest-utils	cloud guest utilities
- cloud-initramfs-copymods	copy initramfs modules into root filesystem for later use
- cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf	write a network interface file in /run for BOOTIF
- colord	system service to manage device colour profiles -- system daemon
- colord-data	system service to manage device colour profiles -- data files
- dconf-gsettings-backend:amd64	simple configuration storage system - GSettings back-end
- dconf-service	simple configuration storage system - D-Bus service
- dns-root-data	DNS root data including root zone and DNSSEC key
- dnsmasq-base	Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
- firefox	Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
- gettext	GNU Internationalization utilities
- git	fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
- git-man	fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (manual pages)
- glib-networking:amd64	network-related giomodules for GLib
- glib-networking-common	network-related giomodules for GLib - data files
- glib-networking-services	network-related giomodules for GLib - D-Bus services
- grub-legacy-ec2	Handles update-grub for ec2 instances
- gsettings-desktop-schemas	GSettings desktop-wide schemas
- humanity-icon-theme	Humanity Icon theme
- ifenslave	configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)
- libasound2:amd64	shared library for ALSA applications
- libasound2-data	Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers
- libasprintf-dev:amd64	GNU Internationalization library development files
- libatk-bridge2.0-0:amd64	AT-SPI 2 toolkit bridge - shared library
- libatm1:amd64	shared library for ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
- libatspi2.0-0:amd64	Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface - shared library
- libboost-filesystem1.58.0:amd64	filesystem operations (portable paths, iteration over directories, etc) in C++
- libboost-system1.58.0:amd64	Operating system (e.g. diagnostics support) library
- libcairo-gobject2:amd64	Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
- libcapnp-0.5.3:amd64	Cap'n Proto C++ library
- libcgi-fast-perl	CGI subclass for work with FCGI
- libcgi-pm-perl	module for Common Gateway Interface applications
- libcolord2:amd64	system service to manage device colour profiles -- runtime
- libcolorhug2:amd64	library to access the ColorHug colourimeter -- runtime
- libcroco3:amd64	Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit
- libcwidget3v5:amd64	high-level terminal interface library for C++ (runtime files)
- libdconf1:amd64	simple configuration storage system - runtime library
- libdumbnet1:amd64	dumb, portable networking library -- shared library
- libegl1-mesa:amd64	free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
- libencode-locale-perl	utility to determine the locale encoding
- libepoxy0:amd64	OpenGL function pointer management library
- liberror-perl	Perl module for error/exception handling in an OO-ish way
- libexif12:amd64	library to parse EXIF files
- libfcgi-perl	helper module for FastCGI
- libgbm1:amd64	generic buffer management API -- runtime
- libgd3:amd64	GD Graphics Library
- libgettextpo-dev:amd64	GNU Internationalization library development files
- libgettextpo0:amd64	GNU Internationalization library
- libgphoto2-6:amd64	gphoto2 digital camera library
- libgphoto2-l10n	gphoto2 digital camera library - localized messages
- libgphoto2-port12:amd64	gphoto2 digital camera port library
- libgtk-3-0:amd64	GTK+ graphical user interface library
- libgtk-3-bin	programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
- libgtk-3-common	common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
- libgudev-1.0-0:amd64	GObject-based wrapper library for libudev
- libgusb2:amd64	GLib wrapper around libusb1
- libhtml-parser-perl	collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
- libhtml-tagset-perl	Data tables pertaining to HTML
- libhttp-date-perl	module of date conversion routines
- libhttp-message-perl	perl interface to HTTP style messages
- libieee1284-3:amd64	cross-platform library for parallel port access
- libio-html-perl	open an HTML file with automatic charset detection
- libjson-glib-1.0-0:amd64	GLib JSON manipulation library
- libjson-glib-1.0-common	GLib JSON manipulation library (common files)
- liblcms2-2:amd64	Little CMS 2 color management library
- libltdl7:amd64	System independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool
- liblwp-mediatypes-perl	module to guess media type for a file or a URL
- liblxc1	Linux Containers userspace tools (library)
- liblzo2-2:amd64	data compression library
- libmirclient9:amd64	Display server for Ubuntu - client library
- libmircommon7:amd64	Display server for Ubuntu - shared library
- libmircore1:amd64	Display server for Ubuntu - shared library
- libmirprotobuf3:amd64	Display server for Ubuntu - RPC definitions
- libmspack0:amd64	library for Microsoft compression formats (shared library)
- libnetfilter-conntrack3:amd64	Netfilter netlink-conntrack library
- libprotobuf-lite9v5:amd64	protocol buffers C++ library (lite version)
- libproxy1v5:amd64	automatic proxy configuration management library (shared)
- librest-0.7-0:amd64	REST service access library
- librsvg2-2:amd64	SAX-based renderer library for SVG files (runtime)
- librsvg2-common:amd64	SAX-based renderer library for SVG files (extra runtime)
- libsane:amd64	API library for scanners
- libsane-common	API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
- libsigc++-2.0-0v5:amd64	type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
- libsoup-gnome2.4-1:amd64	HTTP library implementation in C -- GNOME support library
- libsoup2.4-1:amd64	HTTP library implementation in C -- Shared library
- libstartup-notification0:amd64	library for program launch feedback (shared library)
- libunistring0:amd64	Unicode string library for C
- liburi-perl	module to manipulate and access URI strings
- libvpx3:amd64	VP8 and VP9 video codec (shared library)
- libwayland-client0:amd64	wayland compositor infrastructure - client library
- libwayland-cursor0:amd64	wayland compositor infrastructure - cursor library
- libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64	implementation of the Wayland EGL platform -- runtime
- libwayland-server0:amd64	wayland compositor infrastructure - server library
- libxcb-util1:amd64	utility libraries for X C Binding -- atom, aux and event
- libxcb-xfixes0:amd64	X C Binding, xfixes extension
- libxfont1:amd64	X11 font rasterisation library
- libxkbcommon0:amd64	library interface to the XKB compiler - shared library
- libxkbfile1:amd64	X11 keyboard file manipulation library
- libxmlsec1	XML security library
- libxmlsec1-openssl	Openssl engine for the XML security library
- libxslt1.1:amd64	XSLT 1.0 processing library - runtime library
- linux-firmware-image-4.4.167-grsec	Linux kernel firmware, version 4.4.167-grsec
- linux-image-4.4.0-131-generic	Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- linux-image-4.4.167-grsec	Linux kernel, version 4.4.167-grsec
- linux-image-extra-4.4.0-131-generic	Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- lxc-common	Linux Containers userspace tools (common tools)
- lxcfs	FUSE based filesystem for LXC
- lxd	Container hypervisor based on LXC - daemon
- lxd-client	Container hypervisor based on LXC - client
- mdadm	tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
- open-iscsi	iSCSI initiator tools
- open-vm-tools	Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
- overlayroot	use an overlayfs on top of a read-only root filesystem
- pinentry-curses	curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
- python3-software-properties	manage the repositories that you install software from
- snapd	Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages
- software-properties-common	manage the repositories that you install software from (common)
- sosreport	Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
- squashfs-tools	Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
- ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring	GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu Cloud Image builder
- ubuntu-mono	Ubuntu Mono Icon theme
- uidmap	programs to help use subuids
- vlan	user mode programs to enable VLANs on your ethernet devices
- x11-xkb-utils	X11 XKB utilities
- xauth	X authentication utility
- xfonts-base	standard fonts for X
- xfonts-encodings	Encodings for X.Org fonts
- xfonts-utils	X Window System font utility programs
- xfsprogs	Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
- xserver-common	common files used by various X servers
- xvfb	Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server
- zerofree	zero free blocks from ext2, ext3 and ext4 file-systems

In an upgraded production app VM

- apt-xapian-index	maintenance and search tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
- bc	GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
- biosdevname	apply BIOS-given names to network devices
- cgmanager	Central cgroup manager daemon
- cpp-4.8	GNU C preprocessor
- g++-4.8	GNU C++ compiler
- gcc-4.8	GNU C compiler
- gcc-4.8-base:amd64	GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
- gcc-4.9-base:amd64	GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
- heirloom-mailx	feature-rich BSD mail(1) -- transitional package
- landscape-common	The Landscape administration system client - Common files
- libapt-inst1.5:amd64	deb package format runtime library
- libapt-pkg4.12:amd64	package management runtime library
- libarchive-extract-perl	generic archive extracting module
- libasan0:amd64	AddressSanitizer -- a fast memory error detector
- libbind9-90	BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
- libboost-iostreams1.54.0:amd64	Boost.Iostreams Library
- libcgmanager0:amd64	Central cgroup manager daemon (client library)
- libck-connector0:amd64	ConsoleKit libraries
- libcloog-isl4:amd64	Chunky Loop Generator (runtime library)
- libcurl3:amd64	easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
- libcwidget3	high-level terminal interface library for C++ (runtime files)
- libdns100	DNS Shared Library used by BIND
- libept1.4.12:amd64	High-level library for managing Debian package information
- libgc1c2:amd64	conservative garbage collector for C and C++
- libgcc-4.8-dev:amd64	GCC support library (development files)
- libgck-1-0:amd64	Glib wrapper library for PKCS#11 - runtime
- libgcr-3-common	Library for Crypto UI related tasks - common files
- libgcr-base-3-1:amd64	Library for Crypto related tasks
- libgcrypt11:amd64	LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
- libgnutls26:amd64	GNU TLS library - runtime library
- libgssglue1:amd64	mechanism-switch gssapi library
- libisc95	ISC Shared Library used by BIND
- libisccc90	Command Channel Library used by BIND
- libisccfg90	Config File Handling Library used by BIND
- libisl10:amd64	manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by linear constraints
- libiw30:amd64	Wireless tools - library
- libjasper1:amd64	JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime library
- libjson0:amd64	JSON manipulation library (transitional package)
- liblog-message-perl	powerful and flexible message logging mechanism
- liblog-message-simple-perl	simplified interface to Log::Message
- liblwres90	Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND
- libmodule-pluggable-perl	module for giving  modules the ability to have plugins
- libmodule-runtime-perl	Perl module for runtime module handling
- libnih-dbus1:amd64	NIH D-Bus Bindings Library
- libnl-genl-3-200:amd64	library for dealing with netlink sockets - generic netlink
- libpam-cap:amd64	POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (PAM module)
- libparams-classify-perl	Perl module for argument type classification
- libparted0debian1:amd64	disk partition manipulator - shared library
- libpcsclite1:amd64	Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (library)
- libplymouth2:amd64	graphical boot animation and logger - shared libraries
- libpod-latex-perl	module to convert Pod data to formatted LaTeX
- libprocps3:amd64	library for accessing process information from /proc
- libpth20:amd64	GNU Portable Threads
- libpython3.4-minimal:amd64	Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.4)
- librtmp0:amd64	toolkit for RTMP streams (shared library)
- libsecret-1-0:amd64	Secret store
- libsecret-common	Secret store (common files)
- libsigc++-2.0-0c2a:amd64	type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
- libstdc++-4.8-dev:amd64	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files)
- libsystemd-daemon0:amd64	systemd utility library
- libsystemd-login0:amd64	systemd login utility library
- libterm-ui-perl	Term::ReadLine UI made easy
- libtext-soundex-perl	implementation of the soundex algorithm
- libxapian-1.3-5:amd64	Search engine library
- libxapian22	Search engine library
- libxtables10	netfilter xtables library
- linux-firmware-image-4.4.144-grsec	Linux kernel firmware, version 4.4.144-grsec
- linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic	Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- linux-image-4.4.144-grsec	Linux kernel, version 4.4.144-grsec
- linux-image-extra-4.4.0-31-generic	Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- lockfile-progs	Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes
- memtest86
- module-init-tools	transitional dummy package (module-init-tools to kmod)
- mountall	filesystem mounting tool
- perl-modules	Core Perl modules
- pinentry-gtk2	GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
- python-attr	Attributes without boilerplate (Python 2)
- python-cffi-backend	Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code - backend
- python-chardet	universal character encoding detector for Python2
- python-colorama	Cross-platform colored terminal text in Python - Python 2.x
- python-configobj	simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python 2
- python-cryptography	Python library exposing cryptographic recipes and primitives (Python 2)
- python-debian	Python modules to work with Debian-related data formats
- python-distlib	low-level components of python distutils2/packaging
- python-enum34	backport of Python 3.4's enum package
- python-gdbm	GNU dbm database support for Python
- python-html5lib	HTML parser/tokenizer based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification (Python 2)
- python-idna	Python IDNA2008 (RFC 5891) handling (Python 2)
- python-ipaddress	Backport of Python 3 ipaddress module (Python 2)
- python-ndg-httpsclient	enhanced HTTPS support for httplib and urllib2 using PyOpenSSL for Python2
- python-openssl	Python 2 wrapper around the OpenSSL library
- python-pam	Python interface to the PAM library
- python-pyasn1	ASN.1 library for Python (Python 2 module)
- python-pyasn1-modules	Collection of protocols modules written in ASN.1 language
- python-requests	elegant and simple HTTP library for Python2, built for human beings
- python-serial	pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port
- python-service-identity	Service identity verification for pyOpenSSL (Python 2 module)
- python-six	Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (Python 2 interface)
- python-twisted-bin	Event-based framework for internet applications
- python-twisted-core	Event-based framework for internet applications
- python-urllib3	HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling for Python
- python-xapian	Xapian search engine interface for Python
- python-zope.interface	Interfaces for Python
- python3-xapian1.3	Xapian search engine interface for Python3
- python3.4	Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.4)
- python3.4-minimal	Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.4)
- systemd-services	systemd runtime services
- systemd-shim	shim for systemd
- update-motd	compliments pam_motd in libpam-modules
- upstart	event-based init daemon - essential binaries
- w3m	WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
- watershed	reduce superfluous executions of idempotent command
- wireless-tools	Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
- wpasupplicant	client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)

In the default xenial mon VM (based on libvirt_staging_xenial_mon_staging)

- acl	Access control list utilities
- bcache-tools	bcache userspace tools
- btrfs-tools	Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem utilities
- cloud-guest-utils	cloud guest utilities
- cloud-initramfs-copymods	copy initramfs modules into root filesystem for later use
- cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf	write a network interface file in /run for BOOTIF
- dns-root-data	DNS root data including root zone and DNSSEC key
- dnsmasq-base	Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
- git	fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
- git-man	fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (manual pages)
- grub-legacy-ec2	Handles update-grub for ec2 instances
- ifenslave	configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)
- libatm1:amd64	shared library for ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
- libcgi-fast-perl	CGI subclass for work with FCGI
- libcgi-pm-perl	module for Common Gateway Interface applications
- libcwidget3v5:amd64	high-level terminal interface library for C++ (runtime files)
- libdpkg-perl	Dpkg perl modules
- libdumbnet1:amd64	dumb, portable networking library -- shared library
- libencode-locale-perl	utility to determine the locale encoding
- liberror-perl	Perl module for error/exception handling in an OO-ish way
- libfcgi-perl	helper module for FastCGI
- libfile-fcntllock-perl	Perl module for file locking with fcntl(2)
- libhtml-parser-perl	collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
- libhtml-tagset-perl	Data tables pertaining to HTML
- libhttp-date-perl	module of date conversion routines
- libhttp-message-perl	perl interface to HTTP style messages
- libio-html-perl	open an HTML file with automatic charset detection
- liblwp-mediatypes-perl	module to guess media type for a file or a URL
- liblxc1	Linux Containers userspace tools (library)
- libmspack0:amd64	library for Microsoft compression formats (shared library)
- libnetfilter-conntrack3:amd64	Netfilter netlink-conntrack library
- libsigc++-2.0-0v5:amd64	type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
- liburi-perl	module to manipulate and access URI strings
- libxmlsec1	XML security library
- libxmlsec1-openssl	Openssl engine for the XML security library
- libxslt1.1:amd64	XSLT 1.0 processing library - runtime library
- linux-firmware-image-4.4.167-grsec	Linux kernel firmware, version 4.4.167-grsec
- linux-image-4.4.0-131-generic	Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- linux-image-4.4.167-grsec	Linux kernel, version 4.4.167-grsec
- linux-image-extra-4.4.0-131-generic	Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- lxc-common	Linux Containers userspace tools (common tools)
- lxcfs	FUSE based filesystem for LXC
- lxd	Container hypervisor based on LXC - daemon
- lxd-client	Container hypervisor based on LXC - client
- mdadm	tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
- open-iscsi	iSCSI initiator tools
- open-vm-tools	Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
- overlayroot	use an overlayfs on top of a read-only root filesystem
- python3-software-properties	manage the repositories that you install software from
- snapd	Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages
- software-properties-common	manage the repositories that you install software from (common)
- sosreport	Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
- squashfs-tools	Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
- ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring	GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu Cloud Image builder
- uidmap	programs to help use subuids
- vlan	user mode programs to enable VLANs on your ethernet devices
- xfsprogs	Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
- zerofree	zero free blocks from ext2, ext3 and ext4 file-systems

In an upgraded production mon VM

- apt-xapian-index	maintenance and search tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
- bc	GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
- biosdevname	apply BIOS-given names to network devices
- cgmanager	Central cgroup manager daemon
- cpp-4.8	GNU C preprocessor
- gcc-4.8	GNU C compiler
- gcc-4.8-base:amd64	GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
- gcc-4.9-base:amd64	GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
- heirloom-mailx	feature-rich BSD mail(1) -- transitional package
- landscape-common	The Landscape administration system client - Common files
- libapt-inst1.5:amd64	deb package format runtime library
- libapt-pkg4.12:amd64	package management runtime library
- libarchive-extract-perl	generic archive extracting module
- libasan0:amd64	AddressSanitizer -- a fast memory error detector
- libbind9-90	BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
- libboost-iostreams1.54.0:amd64	Boost.Iostreams Library
- libcgmanager0:amd64	Central cgroup manager daemon (client library)
- libck-connector0:amd64	ConsoleKit libraries
- libcloog-isl4:amd64	Chunky Loop Generator (runtime library)
- libcurl3:amd64	easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
- libcwidget3	high-level terminal interface library for C++ (runtime files)
- libdns100	DNS Shared Library used by BIND
- libept1.4.12:amd64	High-level library for managing Debian package information
- libgcc-4.8-dev:amd64	GCC support library (development files)
- libgck-1-0:amd64	Glib wrapper library for PKCS#11 - runtime
- libgcr-3-common	Library for Crypto UI related tasks - common files
- libgcr-base-3-1:amd64	Library for Crypto related tasks
- libgcrypt11:amd64	LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
- libgnutls26:amd64	GNU TLS library - runtime library
- libgssglue1:amd64	mechanism-switch gssapi library
- libisc95	ISC Shared Library used by BIND
- libisccc90	Command Channel Library used by BIND
- libisccfg90	Config File Handling Library used by BIND
- libisl10:amd64	manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by linear constraints
- libiw30:amd64	Wireless tools - library
- libjson0:amd64	JSON manipulation library (transitional package)
- libkyotocabinet16:amd64	Straightforward implementation of DBM - shared library
- liblog-message-perl	powerful and flexible message logging mechanism
- liblog-message-simple-perl	simplified interface to Log::Message
- liblwres90	Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND
- libmodule-pluggable-perl	module for giving  modules the ability to have plugins
- libmodule-runtime-perl	Perl module for runtime module handling
- libmysqlclient18:amd64	MySQL database client library
- libnih-dbus1:amd64	NIH D-Bus Bindings Library
- libnl-genl-3-200:amd64	library for dealing with netlink sockets - generic netlink
- libpam-cap:amd64	POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (PAM module)
- libparams-classify-perl	Perl module for argument type classification
- libparted0debian1:amd64	disk partition manipulator - shared library
- libpcsclite1:amd64	Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (library)
- libplymouth2:amd64	graphical boot animation and logger - shared libraries
- libpod-latex-perl	module to convert Pod data to formatted LaTeX
- libprocps3:amd64	library for accessing process information from /proc
- libpython3.4-minimal:amd64	Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.4)
- librtmp0:amd64	toolkit for RTMP streams (shared library)
- libsigc++-2.0-0c2a:amd64	type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
- libsystemd-daemon0:amd64	systemd utility library
- libsystemd-login0:amd64	systemd login utility library
- libterm-ui-perl	Term::ReadLine UI made easy
- libtext-soundex-perl	implementation of the soundex algorithm
- libxapian-1.3-5:amd64	Search engine library
- libxapian22	Search engine library
- libxtables10	netfilter xtables library
- linux-firmware-image-4.4.144-grsec	Linux kernel firmware, version 4.4.144-grsec
- linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic	Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- linux-image-4.4.144-grsec	Linux kernel, version 4.4.144-grsec
- linux-image-extra-4.4.0-31-generic	Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
- lockfile-progs	Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes
- memtest86
- module-init-tools	transitional dummy package (module-init-tools to kmod)
- mountall	filesystem mounting tool
- perl-modules	Core Perl modules
- python-attr	Attributes without boilerplate (Python 2)
- python-cffi-backend	Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code - backend
- python-chardet	universal character encoding detector for Python2
- python-configobj	simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python 2
- python-cryptography	Python library exposing cryptographic recipes and primitives (Python 2)
- python-debian	Python modules to work with Debian-related data formats
- python-enum34	backport of Python 3.4's enum package
- python-gdbm	GNU dbm database support for Python
- python-idna	Python IDNA2008 (RFC 5891) handling (Python 2)
- python-ipaddress	Backport of Python 3 ipaddress module (Python 2)
- python-ndg-httpsclient	enhanced HTTPS support for httplib and urllib2 using PyOpenSSL for Python2
- python-openssl	Python 2 wrapper around the OpenSSL library
- python-pam	Python interface to the PAM library
- python-pkg-resources	Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources
- python-pyasn1	ASN.1 library for Python (Python 2 module)
- python-pyasn1-modules	Collection of protocols modules written in ASN.1 language
- python-requests	elegant and simple HTTP library for Python2, built for human beings
- python-serial	pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port
- python-service-identity	Service identity verification for pyOpenSSL (Python 2 module)
- python-six	Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (Python 2 interface)
- python-twisted-bin	Event-based framework for internet applications
- python-twisted-core	Event-based framework for internet applications
- python-urllib3	HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling for Python
- python-xapian	Xapian search engine interface for Python
- python-zope.interface	Interfaces for Python
- python3-xapian1.3	Xapian search engine interface for Python3
- python3.4	Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.4)
- python3.4-minimal	Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.4)
- systemd-services	systemd runtime services
- systemd-shim	shim for systemd
- update-motd	compliments pam_motd in libpam-modules
- upstart	event-based init daemon - essential binaries
- w3m	WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
- watershed	reduce superfluous executions of idempotent command
- wireless-tools	Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
- wpasupplicant	client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)

Note the appearance of wireless related packages like wpasupplicant, libiw30 and wireless-tools in the upgrade scenarios. Since wireless support is not provided at the kernel-level, these packages are relatively harmless, but they should never be installed.

[zenmonkeykstop]

The attached files are the output of sudo apt list --installed for a 2014 Mac Mini system set up via the upgrade-in-place docs.
packages-xenial-uip-mon.txt
packages-xenial-uip-app.txt

[redshiftzero]

These package lists are from a fresh install on 2014 Mac Minis on Xenial (initially on 0.12.0~rc1 a few days back, app has updated to rc3 but I had mon unplugged due to limited outlets in my apartment heh so mon has not gone up to rc3 yet):

app-xenial-fresh.txt
mon-xenial-fresh.txt

The wireless related packages flagged in this ticket are absent. Note that this Xenial install was done following the recently added Xenial documentation, i.e. with only OpenSSH selected.

[emkll]

In the case of VMs , bento/ubuntu-14.04 contains those packages (gcc, wpasuppplicant, wireless-tools and libiw30) by default.

A clean Trusty install yields the following packages on the system:
app-trusty.txt
mon-trusty.txt

This should explain the Xenial upgrade boxes containing those packages in VMs.

[emkll]

I have a physical instance that is running trusty, using 0.12.0-rc3: I am seeing the above packages installedas well, investigating if it might be the ubuntu do-release-upgrade changes that are pulling in these dependencies.

[eloquence]

Since these extra packages are just confusing and do not pose significant risks given the lack of wireless support in the kernel, we agreed during standup today to handle this in the next point release.

[emkll]

A clean install of Trusty 14.04.5, by default, includes the packages mentioned in this ticket. This is not a regression due to the Xenial upgrade.
trusty-hardware.txt

[emkll]

A version of gcc or gcc-base as well as dpkg-dev (recommended) [2] is required for Ubuntu to function correctly, it is a dependency of libgcc1 [0] which in turn is a dependency of a large number of packages, including apt [1].

[0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgcc1
[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/apt
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/dpkg-dev