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While changing the core packages as a rewrite looks easy (,,just reimplement ls''), compatibility/stability may mean reproducing all the tiny but not safety cri

While changing the core packages as a rewrite looks easy (,,just reimplement ls''), compatibility/stability may mean reproducing all the tiny but not safety critical bugs as well. There's enough data from the Android ecosystem that it's much better to focus oxidisation on new software instead of old.

steveklabnik 2y ago
They're using the upstream test suite to track this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking