On 2026-04-02 Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Allowing multiple coreutils implementation, changes the features that > maintainer scripts can expect to be available and restrict them to POSIX > only. People already started filling bugs about that. This will also > likely causes many packages to FTBFS or provide different content.
> For instance coreutils-from-busybox (which seems to be installed by > default as part of the upgrade, see #1126264), does not provide the -m > or -s option of realpath. Their replacement by fully POSIX code is not > trivial and I am worried that we will end up with different open coded > version of it, with various kind of bugs, possibly serious ones. > Note that I haven't investigated if the other coreutils-from-* packages > suffer from the same issue and I haven't looked at all options of all > binaries. Yes, +1. This change has the potential for immense churn for very, very, very little gain. cu Andreas -- "You people are noisy," Nia said. I made the gesture of agreement.
