You're right, many people will probably remove it when they install
Ubuntu, however a papercut since it is not a usability flaw that
negatively impacts the user epxerience, it still does not count as a
papercut. Many, if not most users, will not even notice evolution-common
being left on their system either because they don't bother to check or
they are completely unaware of the fact that this can even happen - to
them, an application is a single 'thing', and once it's removed via the
Software Centre, it's gone.

I personally hate applications that can't clean up after themselves, and
I hate Evolution in particular for the mess it makes of my system, but
at the end of the day, the 'average user', which is the user the
papercut project was create to help, will not be aware of this stuff
going on 'under the hood'. If evolution-common was causing some problem
that was felt at the higher levels of the OS, such as a certain
application or filetype taking longer to open for instance, then that
would be a papercut, but evolution-common itself being left behind is
not.

A papercut has a very strict definition, and if you're interested in
minutia of this definition, check out the Hundred Papercuts wikipage
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

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  Uninstalling Evolution through USC does not remove evolution-common

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