Note that tasksel in xenial is significantly newer than the one in
trusty.

The output generated by taksel, is something that apt understands e.g.:

$ tasksel --list-packages server
server^

One can use --dry-run to check what would apt do, when asked to install
the server task:

$ apt --dry-run install server^
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'cryptsetup-bin' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'lxc-common' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'screen' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'acpid' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'liblvm2cmd2.02' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'dmsetup' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'at' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libmpfr4' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-software-properties' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'byobu' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'rename' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'update-notifier-common' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'git-man' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'acl' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'run-one' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'mdadm' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-systemd' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'snapd' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'vlan' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'pastebinit' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'squashfs-tools' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libdevmapper-event1.02.1' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'open-iscsi' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'perl-modules-5.22' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'dnsmasq-base' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'open-vm-tools' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'dmeventd' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'git' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'gawk' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'lvm2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libpolkit-agent-1-0' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'zerofree' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-six' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'ubuntu-server' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'grub-legacy-ec2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'lxd' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-pycurl' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'liblxc1' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libperl5.22' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'apport' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'xfsprogs' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-apport' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'liblvm2app2.2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libmspack0' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'vim-runtime' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libnetfilter-conntrack3' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'ubuntu-core-launcher' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'vim' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'xz-utils' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-pkg-resources' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'ifenslave' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libutempter0' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libpolkit-backend-1-0' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libreadline5' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'bcache-tools' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'sosreport' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libgpm2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libevent-2.0-5' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'policykit-1' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'ethtool' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'unattended-upgrades' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'perl' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'dns-root-data' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'tmux' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'overlayroot' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'cloud-initramfs-copymods' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'apport-symptoms' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-debian' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'curl' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-newt' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'cloud-guest-utils' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'cryptsetup' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'patch' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-chardet' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'python3-problem-report' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'lxd-client' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'uidmap' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libdumbnet1' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'libsigsegv2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'lxcfs' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'liblzo2-2' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'software-properties-common' for task 'server'
Note, selecting 'liberror-perl' for task 'server'

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