Hi Michael, what is your opinion on a backport of coreutils 8.30-3 to stretch? Background: lintian recently bumped the dependency to coreutils (>= 8.30) because it uses some newer feature, breaking its backport to stretch. (#944258)
I could build it on stretch(+stretch-backports?) without needing to do any changes to the package and I'm running this on a single machine (running stretch with a selected set of packages from backports, buster and sid) without having encountered problems so far. But I'd prefer not to take the responsibility of doing an official backport of a core package like coreutils. IMO this would be better done by you (as coreutils maintainer) or the lintian maintainers (since this is needed for the lintian backport). Andreas
