This is a follow-up to Jon’s original post on Carefully (but purposefully) oxidising Ubuntu and Julian’s migration spec for 25.10. We promised transparency throughout this process, and this post is written in that spirit. What happened after the announcement Following the decision to adopt rust-coreutils, we got to work. Any package shipped by default in Ubuntu must be promoted to Ubuntu Main, which requires passing a thorough security review. We quickly assembled an internal team spanning Ubun...
A significant number are slight differences from GNU behavior that likely wouldn’t impact users or just random miscellaneous project tasks like “this is inefficient” or “clean up this thing.” Not saying there aren’t problems to be addressed, just that the number looks more concerning than it actually is. Wouldn’t be surprised if some are outdated as well.
The “reported upstream” link is broken (fixed link).
The amount of issues is scary
A significant number are slight differences from GNU behavior that likely wouldn’t impact users or just random miscellaneous project tasks like “this is inefficient” or “clean up this thing.” Not saying there aren’t problems to be addressed, just that the number looks more concerning than it actually is. Wouldn’t be surprised if some are outdated as well.
There is the odd (genuine) security issue tbf. But they are more of the variant: