“ubuntu-advantage-tools needs to be present so users can upgrade to Ubuntu Advantage/Pro to get extended security support.” Remind users to apt-get ubuntu-adva

“ubuntu-advantage-tools needs to be present so users can upgrade to Ubuntu Advantage/Pro to get extended security support.” Remind users to apt-get ubuntu-advantage-tools if they want to upgrade. “No, `apt-get ubuntu-extended-support` isn’t an option, because users should be able to use Ubuntu without using apt-get.” So, who exactly is using Minimal Ubuntu (“…a set of Ubuntu images designed for automated deployment at scale…”) without using apt-get? Your description of the distro as “…not intended to be comfortable to use at the command line, but you can apt-get and snap install anything as usual…” sure sounds like you expect users to use apt-get, in the rare circumstance that anyone ever does log in as a user to one of these distros. “Sorry, but we will not budge on this ‘must have access to advantage/pro without apt-get’ technicality.” So there’s this line, once again from the Ubuntu wiki’s own description of Ubuntu Minimal: “The `unminimize` command will install the standard Ubuntu Server packages if you want to convert a Minimal instance to a standard Server environment…”. So make a `get-advantage` or `go-pro` command. There, access to advantage/pro without apt-get. “Look, we are a business, and advantage/pro upgrades are how we make money, we’re not taking it out.” I’m sure you have telemetry tracking upgrade conversions - maybe in ubuntu-advantage-tools itself, maybe elsewhere. Take a good look at that data and find out how many people are upgrading to advantage/pro from minimal. Is it zero? It’s zero, isn’t it?