Thanks for the improvements. We're about to do a coreutils release, so I'm thinking these changes might go in after that so we can test thoroughly.
A few comments on the new bootstrap.conf You seem to have synced against an old version of buildreq which didn't have autotools or gettext listed. But that old version also had autopoint which you dropped? s/zile_cleanup_changelog/coretuils_cleanup_changelog/ cheers, Pádraig.