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Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

There's still a few weeks until 25.10 releases. If its still issues by release time I'm sure that they'll either delay the 25.10 release (as they have done in the past) or pause the coreutils-rs rollout and stick to GNU Coreutils for this release.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We shall hope so.

    A few tests failing in beta, when this can be fixed before the release, is hardly newsworthy.

    However it leaves a bad taste to even consider replacing coreutils when it's nur clear that the replacement is rock solid. Those commands are used in millions of shell scripts distributed alongside applications. Should coreutils break, we'd learn the hard way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Furthermore, 25.10 is a short-term release that exists as a preview for 26.04. 25.10 will receive security patches for nine months. 26.04, as an LTS, will receive security patches for up to 12 years (most of which are paid). Nobody should be seriously migrating to 25.10.
    If coreutils-rs does get into the official release of 25.10 and totally tanks it, well, that's what short-term releases are for.

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