package no longer required on latest focal cloud image

When starting the newest Ubuntu Cloud Image for Focal Fossa, many packages are reported to be no longer needed.

This is from a freshly booted and UNMODIFIED Focal UCI :
root@focal-uci-pristine:/home/ubuntu# apt update
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [89.1 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [97.9 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [970 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main Translation-en [506 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [29.5 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted amd64 Packages [22.0 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages [8628 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe Translation-en [5124 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [265 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages [144 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse Translation-en [104 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [9136 B]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [1980 B]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main Translation-en [1152 B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [160 B]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1304 B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe Translation-en [1060 B]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [112 B]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [116 B]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [112 B]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/restricted amd64 c-n-f Metadata [116 B]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [116 B]
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [116 B]
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages [1304 B]
Get:27 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe Translation-en [1060 B]
Get:28 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata [112 B]
Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [116 B]
Fetched 16.4 MB in 4s (3768 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
9 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
root@focal-uci-pristine:/home/ubuntu# apt install pastebinit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
pastebinit is already the newest version (1.5.1-1).
pastebinit set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apport apport-symptoms at bc bcache-tools bolt btrfs-progs byobu cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin cryptsetup-run dmeventd ethtool finalrd
  fonts-ubuntu-console fwupd fwupd-signed git git-man htop initramfs-tools-bin klibc-utils kpartx landscape-common libaio1 libarchive13
  libcurl3-gnutls libdevmapper-event1.02.1 liberror-perl libevent-2.1-7 libfl2 libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin1 libgcab-1.0-0 libgpgme11
  libgudev-1.0-0 libgusb2 libisns0 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjson-glib-1.0-common libklibc liblvm2cmd2.03 libmspack0 libreadline5
  libsgutils2-2 libsmbios-c2 libtss2-esys0 liburcu6 libutempter0 libxmlb1 libxmlsec1 libxmlsec1-openssl libxslt1.1 lvm2 lxd-agent-loader
  lz4 mdadm open-iscsi open-vm-tools patch pollinate python3-apport python3-automat python3-click python3-colorama python3-constantly
  python3-debconf python3-debian python3-hamcrest python3-hyperlink python3-incremental python3-newt python3-problem-report python3-pyasn1
  python3-pyasn1-modules python3-service-identity python3-systemd python3-twisted python3-twisted-bin python3-zope.interface run-one
  screen sg3-utils sosreport thin-provisioning-tools tmux tpm-udev update-notifier-common xfsprogs zerofree
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

cat /etc/cloud/build.info
build_name: server
serial: 20200422.1

The image used was the following :

root@systemd-tester:~# md5sum focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img
3284b9d54defb0f56875a45ffbd53ace focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img

I will keep the instance available if you need it for testing.

...Louis