Address the fact that debootstrap doesn't follow Recommends and as a result we're missing several Recommends that should be installed by default and are on upgrades but not on new installs. This is not applied to minimized images, which don't follow Recommends; but does get separately applied to the ubuntu-server full squashfs.

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.802) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Address the fact that debootstrap doesn't follow Recommends and as a
+    result we're missing several Recommends that should be installed by
+    default and are on upgrades but not on new installs.  This is not
+    applied to minimized images, which don't follow Recommends; but does get
+    separately applied to the ubuntu-server full squashfs.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:46:47 -0800
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.801) lunar; urgency=medium
 
   [ Heinrich Schuchardt ]

live-build/auto/build

@@ -327,6 +327,16 @@ EOF
                 chmod +x chroot/usr/bin/man
 	fi
 
+	if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" != minimized ] \
+	   && [ "${PROJECT}" != "ubuntu-server" ]
+	then
+		# debootstrap doesn't handle Recommends and fixing this is
+		# non-trivial, so install missing Recommends here
+		echo "Installing any missing recommends"
+		Chroot chroot "env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+			apt-get -y --fix-policy install"
+	fi
+
 	if [ -n "${PASSES}" ]; then
 		PATH="config/:$PATH" lb chroot_layered "$@"
 	else

live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/01-unminimize.chroot_early

@@ -18,3 +18,10 @@ ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/snap
 yes | /usr/local/sbin/unminimize
 rm /usr/bin/snap
 dpkg-divert --remove --rename /usr/bin/snap
+
+# Fix up missing recommends.  Other non-layered flavors handle this in
+# live-build/auto/build, but we need to do it here.  Also, there are
+# additional recommends missing from server-minimal that wouldn't be
+# corrected by a fix to debootstrap to handle Recommends.
+echo "Installing any missing recommends"
+env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y --fix-policy install