Comment 3 for bug 1290334

Thank you for your report.

Since this is the intended behaviour, I don't think it qualifies as a bug in the augeas package in Ubuntu. Augeas upstream would be a better venue for discussing this sort of change - particularly since changing the tree would break everyone else relying on the existing behaviour.

Since this is not a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Invalid in Ubuntu, but feel free to raise the issue elsewhere, or even to continue to discuss it here.