Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package
Henryk Paluch <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2026 18:28:17 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Thank to Git we can find exactly Who and When published following statement (that sparked this thread): > Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the > default. It was introduced with 7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81 [1] commit 7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81 Author: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> Date: Tue Jun 23 22:47:20 2026 +0200 feat: add Debian, Alpine, Redox OS, VS Code Web, Buildroot to users page ... +Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the default. +A **Google Summer of Code 2024** project - *"Improve support of the Rust +coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored by Sylvestre Ledru to accelerate the +integration. The package is also inherited by downstream Debian-based +distributions including Raspbian, Kali Linux, Parrot OS, PureOS, and deepin 23. ... And later weakened (but not dismissed) with 2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1 [2] commit 2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1 Author: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> Date: Sat Jun 27 22:04:53 2026 +0200 Remove incorrect info ... -Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the default. A **Google Summer of Code 2024** project - *"Improve support of the Rust -coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored to accelerate the +coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored to accelerate the potential ... It would be nice if Sylvestre Ledru would explain on what source is based his claim that Debian is moving to uutils. [1] https://github.com/uutils/uutils.github.io/commit/7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81 [2] https://github.com/uutils/uutils.github.io/commit/2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1