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>Canonical's usage of uutils is likely for marketing Currently their usage is actively worsening the security of their distro

• Avamander 6mo ago
  These things were caught and basically all of them weren't covered by any test suite (not even GNU coreutils'). It's a bit bold to claim that it's actively worsening it when it's not an LTS.
  • ok123456 6mo ago
    That's generally what you call introducing new semantic bugs.
  • pseudalopex 6mo ago
    > It's a bit bold to claim that it's actively worsening it when it's not an LTS. It is LTS now. And not LTS releases are releases.
• dapperdrake 6mo ago
  Welcome to building something new.
  • ragall 6mo ago
    New things can be made optional and tested outside production, and should not be rolled out in an LTS edition.
    • thesuperbigfrog 6mo ago
      >> should not be rolled out in an LTS edition. The Rust coreutils were first rolled out in the previous release which was not LTS: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-q...
      • ragall 6mo ago
        That was for 6 months only and in an intermediate version that many don't update to, especially in production environments.