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Legacy is a bit harsh...
FWIW, Canonical did not reach out to any of us who maintain GNU coreutils before, after, or during the transition. Had we known, we could have easily warned them about the incompatibilities.
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
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Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
#12Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
#13I really don't understand why Canonical rushes this. If 'rm' can't remove all possible directory entries, that is a big issue: $ podman run --rm -it ubuntu:26.10 $ apt update -y; apt upgrade -y $ rm --version rm (uutils coreutils) 0.10.0 $ gnumkdir -p $(yes a/ | head -n $((32 * 1024)) | tr -d '\n') $ rm -rf a Segmentation fault (core dumped) rm -rf a $ ls a a $ gnurm -rf a $ ls a ls: cannot access 'a': No such file o…
Rush? This is an interim release (95% or so only tracks LTS's) that is not even out yet... Go file a bug reports if you have some time.
I have. It has been an open bug upstream for years as well.
Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Legacy is a bit harsh... FWIW, Canonical did not reach out to any of us who maintain GNU coreutils before, after, or during the transition. Had we known, we could have easily warned them about the incompatibilities.
Yeah, shouldn't have called it legacy, perhaps OG would have been more appropriate.
Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rush? This is an interim release (95% or so only tracks LTS's) that is not even out yet... Go file a bug reports if you have some time.
I have. It has been an open bug upstream for years as well.
ok, that's concerning, if you post it here I'll vote for it (after confirming).
Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
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Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
#17I really don't understand why Canonical rushes this. If 'rm' can't remove all possible directory entries, that is a big issue: $ podman run --rm -it ubuntu:26.10 $ apt update -y; apt upgrade -y $ rm --version rm (uutils coreutils) 0.10.0 $ gnumkdir -p $(yes a/ | head -n $((32 * 1024)) | tr -d '\n') $ rm -rf a Segmentation fault (core dumped) rm -rf a $ ls a a $ gnurm -rf a $ ls a ls: cannot access 'a': No such file o…
Let them first fix Snap.
Re: Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
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The project was started long before LLMs existed.