After speaking with some Ubuntu developers, I realized that the bug is not in the package management but rather in the autoremove tool. It seems that it keeps recommended packages, even when the ones that installed them as dependency are no longer there.
After speaking with some Ubuntu developers, I realized that the bug is not in the package management but rather in the autoremove tool. It seems that it keeps recommended packages, even when the ones that installed them as dependency are no longer there.