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

Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 09:22:37 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On 2026-07-09 10:06, Nicholas Guriev wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 23:05:03 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On 2026-07-01 22:09, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > > On 2026-07-01 20:02, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > > > > Just for the record:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I added busybox and toybox variants, and uploaded the package to
> > > > > > experimental per Helmut's request as he wanted to explore those
> > > > > > alternatives.
> > > > 
> > > > Btw, It would be great to continue this work and make it easy to switch
> > > > between the various implementations in unstable.
> > > 
> > > Or a burden for other maintainers to support.
> > 
> > And bugs for users (see for example #1132504).
> 
> Consider it as a good chance to fix more bugs and make Debian more robust and
> reliable. Unreported bugs do not vanish, but they have a lesser probability of
> getting fixed.

Or given the complexity to replace realpath, ending up with dozen of 
different implementations in maintainer scripts, each with different 
bugs, affecting our users.

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