Comment 14 for bug 1575802

On a fresh 18.04 daily..

$ sudo apt-get install powerline
[sudo] password for scott:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-powerline libpython-stdlib python python-minimal python-powerline
  python-psutil python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-powerline python3-psutil
Suggested packages:
  python-powerline-doc vim-addon-manager python-doc python-tk
  python-psutil-doc python2.7-doc binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-powerline libpython-stdlib powerline python python-minimal
  python-powerline python-psutil python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-powerline
  python3-psutil
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,267 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,242 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

scott@scott-home-pc:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Hit:5 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed InRelease

$ sudo apt-get install powerline
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-powerline libpython-stdlib libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
  libpython2.7-stdlib python python-minimal python-powerline python-psutil
  python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-powerline python3-psutil
Suggested packages:
  python-powerline-doc vim-addon-manager python-doc python-tk
  python-psutil-doc python2.7-doc binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-powerline libpython-stdlib powerline python python-minimal
  python-powerline python-psutil python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-powerline
  python3-psutil
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib
3 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,564 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,254 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Will 18.04 not get this update? Why is python2.7 still going to be installed?