I looked at this a bit more, here are some findings:
- the "module-init-tools" package is returned from cache.get_changes() *but* it 
not marked for install/remove/upgrade/reinstall/downgrade - funny enough its 
also not marked "keep" so its in some heisenstate
- module-init-tools is not installable because it has a hard depenency on 
libkmod2=21-1ubuntu1 but the libmod2 version in xenial is 22-1ubuntu1.
- when apts depcache.cc sees a package like module-init-tools that has a hard 
dependency that can't be satisfied it will reset the candidate version. I 
(strongly) suspect it also need to set it back into "keep" state.

So to fix this we need:
- make module-init-tools installable again
- fix apt to not go into heisenstate when it encounters a situation like this

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