I have discussed this in person, and indeed this is not something we want to support any more. If you are preseeding please use postinstall commands to executed apt in-target to install things which are not part of the tasks.
** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) ** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.12 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578642 Title: Xenial tasksel "manual package selection" during installation does nothing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasksel/+bug/1578642/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs