I am aware that this is breaking compatibility, which is why I started
doing it in the apt tool, as it's for interactive use, not script use.

The change to remove regular expressions is absolutely necessary, as
it's currently a somewhat huge risk if you have packages with + in their
name and they get removed from the archive. I'm currently evaluating
feedback on whether I should add fnmatch matching - which should not
have any overlap with package names back in.

WRT experimental - APT development is aligned with Ubuntu development,
hence Ubuntu devel always ships the latest APT. The reason the latest
APT is not in unstable yet is that there is one more ABI break coming.

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  Unable to install group of packages with `sudo apt install language-
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