I have been been running trusty since the first alpha release, pulling daily updates. I also installed the oracle-java7-installer from the WebUpd8 PPA. Today I noticed during a dist-upgrade that oracle-java7-installer was being removed. On my edge system I just allow all the defaults so I allowed the removal expecting to try out the java 8 version anyway. However when I went to install the oracle-java8-installer package it wanted to remove "apt"!? This obviously sparked my concern, as it even feels like a security concern. Help understanding this would be greatly appreciated.

$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Suggested packages:

  visualvm ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts ttf-unfonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-sazanami-mincho

  ttf-arphic-uming

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  apt apturl nautilus-share python3-software-properties software-center software-properties-common software-properties-gtk

  ubuntu-extras-keyring ubuntu-minimal unattended-upgrades

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  oracle-java8-installer

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.

This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!

  apt

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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