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
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