Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

I will note that Ubuntu's rewrite of coreutils breaks a number of test
suites (including xfstests) because its outputs are different and this
breaks golden output comparisons.  I expect it will also break various
expect scripts that sysadmins might have in production.

Bug reports about fstests being broken on Ubuntu have been rejected[1]
because it's perceived by kernel developers as Ubuntu just being
silly(tm).  Given that some rather the primary test regression
appliance is based on Debian[2], I would consider it.... unfortunate
and regrettable if coreutils were replaced by Canonical's rust
rewrite.  And that's before we consider the over 100 CVE's that were
*introduced* by the rewrite of coreutils[3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/[email protected]/
[2] https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit

Regards,

					- Ted