Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on Ubuntu 25.10 causing some breakage, a more pressing issue has been discovered: Ubuntu 25.10's unattended upgrades functionality for automatic security updates is currently broken due to a Rust Coreutils bug.

Earlier this month it was reported that the date -r command can report the wrong date on Ubuntu 25.10 due to a Rust Coreutils difference compared to GNU Coreutils. It was noted that this could cause issues for backup scripts and other software relying on the "date -r" output and behavior being the same as GNU Coreutils

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I try not to put much stock in black-and-white opinions because I think the answer is rarely that simple.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I try not to put much stock in black-and-white opinions because I think the answer is rarely that simple.

    Sometimes facts are actually black-and-white and not shades of grey opinions. Also, brushing away simple truths by insisting they are extremely complex facets of a thing the common person does not need to get involved is a common disinformation tactic, used by the likes of climate change deniers etc. since decades.

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