Source: coreutils-from Version: 0.0.0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi, 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. Regards Aurelien
