Package "python" removed from default package selection

[Michael Soegtrop]

Dear Cygwin Team,

as far as I can tell the package "python" which drags in some python and 
creates a symlink like

/usr/bin/python -> python2.7.exe

has been removed recently (in the last 3 days or so) from the default 
package selection. This has the effect that calls to just "python" fail. 
Is this an intended change? I didn't see an announcement for this change 
here.

I hope, I can easily fix this by installing the package manually ...

Bets regards,

Michael

Package selection a few days ago (with no python package explicitly 
selected):

python python-2.7.18-1.tar.bz2 0
python-pip-wheel python-pip-wheel-19.2.3-1.tar.bz2 0
python-setuptools-wheel python-setuptools-wheel-41.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
python2 python2-2.7.18-2.tar.bz2 0
python27 python27-2.7.18-2.tar.bz2 0
python27-pip python27-pip-20.2.2-1.tar.bz2 0
python27-setuptools python27-setuptools-41.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
python3 python3-3.8.6-1.tar.bz2 0
python36 python36-3.6.10-1.tar.bz2 0
python38 python38-3.8.3-1.tar.bz2 0

Package selection today:

python-pip-wheel python-pip-wheel-19.2.3-1.tar.bz2 0
python-setuptools-wheel python-setuptools-wheel-41.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
python2 python2-2.7.18-1.tar.bz2 0
python27 python27-2.7.18-1.tar.bz2 0
python3 python3-3.6.8-1.tar.bz2 0
python36 python36-3.6.10-1.tar.bz2 0