I went ahead and did a attended install to a vm with xenial at 20160224.
The tasksel menu ("Software selection") at the end does default to 'standard' being selected.
So someone just taking defaults as then install manually will get standard^.
This still differs (from memory) from trusty in that
a.) i dont think you were given the option to *not* chose 'standard'
b.) as shown in our automated tests, change is required to get standard if you have a previously used preseed.
if we could fix 'b' even if not fixing 'a', then I'd consider that fine. If not, then I think this at very least requires a release note.
I went ahead and did a attended install to a vm with xenial at 20160224.
The tasksel menu ("Software selection") at the end does default to 'standard' being selected.
So someone just taking defaults as then install manually will get standard^.
This still differs (from memory) from trusty in that
a.) i dont think you were given the option to *not* chose 'standard'
b.) as shown in our automated tests, change is required to get standard if you have a previously used preseed.
if we could fix 'b' even if not fixing 'a', then I'd consider that fine. If not, then I think this at very least requires a release note.