[Bug 1534764] [NEW] xenial lxd (-root.tar.gz/-root.tar.xz) have unnecessary packages

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the lxd images currently have 'os-prober' and 'libfreetype6' installed inside them.
I suspect that this is a result of them having been built by building a cloud image (with a kernel and a grub) and then removing the kernel and grub.

Anyway, the end result is that there are packages that can be
autoremoved and that seems just like oversite.

$ url=http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz
$ tball=${url##*/}
$ [ -f "$tball" ] || { wget "$url" -O "$tball.t && mv "$tball.t" "$tball" ; }

$ [ -d ex ] && sudo rm -Rf ex;
$ mkdir -p ex
$ sudo tar -C ex -Sxpf "$tball"
$ sudo chroot ex apt-get autoremove
$ sudo chroot ex apt-get autoremove --dry-run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libfreetype6 os-prober
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv libfreetype6 [2.5.2-4ubuntu2]
Remv os-prober [1.70ubuntu1]

I just found this when fiddling around with maas images that are
derivatives of cloud images.

** Affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: bot-comment cloud-images cloud-images-build
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xenial lxd (-root.tar.gz/-root.tar.xz) have unnecessary packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534764
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