Thank to Git we can find exactly Who and When published following
statement (that sparked this thread):
> Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the
> default.
It was introduced with 7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81 [1]
commit 7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81
Author: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Jun 23 22:47:20 2026 +0200
feat: add Debian, Alpine, Redox OS, VS Code Web, Buildroot to users
page
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+Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the default.
+A **Google Summer of Code 2024** project - *"Improve support of the Rust
+coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored by Sylvestre Ledru to accelerate the
+integration. The package is also inherited by downstream Debian-based
+distributions including Raspbian, Kali Linux, Parrot OS, PureOS, and
deepin 23.
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And later weakened (but not dismissed) with
2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1 [2]
commit 2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1
Author: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jun 27 22:04:53 2026 +0200
Remove incorrect info
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-Debian is also following Ubuntu's path toward making uutils the default.
A **Google Summer of Code 2024** project - *"Improve support of the Rust
-coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored to accelerate the
+coreutils in Debian"* - was mentored to accelerate the potential
...
It would be nice if Sylvestre Ledru would explain on what source is
based his claim that Debian is moving to uutils.
[1]
https://github.com/uutils/uutils.github.io/commit/7c2c9f4e80f3f4952e610ed190f8e932f7784e81
[2]
https://github.com/uutils/uutils.github.io/commit/2c89ac8d8c0f67598bc83b7460170a5ef310fea1
