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The bug report I filed several months ago hasn't been looked at. Many of these utilities were released and made the default for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS!

There's a whole load of basic bugs reported and ignored:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils

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They eventually fixed the one where it didn't sort properly, but it tooks months: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/12253 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/12912

by mixmastamyk17 hours ago|

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I did, and the original dev of the component fixed it within a few days. It was straightforward, a backwards reading of a spec, reordered.

The fix is still sitting unmerged many months later.

This surprised me since I thought the project was in heavy bugfix/compat mode. I won’t touch it until I see some velocity on open bugs.

by baq3 hours ago|

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Fork Ubuntu and threaten their business model, that’ll get their attention.

Only half joking.

by geokon33 minutes ago|

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There's very little incentive to switch. When people release for Linux they almost always first/only test it works on Ubuntu - hence it's going to be the least buggy. (ex: GOG only seemingly tested games on Ubuntu)

So the switching cost is buggy software. You'd need something radically different that brings enough new features to the table to make it worth it the switch and dealing with bad/non-existant support.

I think something like Nix/Guix but with stable library versions that matches Ubuntu/Debian LTS ones 1-to-1 could get traction

by drdexebtjl6 minutes ago|

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Then you would have to embrace their bad decisions, such as this one, and if you do, what’s the point?

Everything just needs to run from a container with their expected runtime environment.

by yjftsjthsd-h2 hours ago|

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Ubuntu is the fork; just use Debian.

by tjoff2 hours ago|

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There are plenty of Ubuntu forks?

by oefrha23 minutes ago|

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This is certainly not just affecting interim releases. Ubuntu 26.04.1 has been released but is currently held back from do-release-upgrade for the LTS channel (which IIRC is unusual for a LTS's .1 release) due to rust-coreutils issue:

> Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager a couple of weeks following this release after some planned backports to address regressions in a recent version of rust-coreutils.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-released/8...

by collinfunk18 hours ago|

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I have. It has been an open bug upstream for years as well.

by teekert18 hours ago|

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ok, that's concerning, if you post it here I'll vote for it (after confirming).

by JdeBP16 minutes ago|

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The Launchpad bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bu... .

The apparently related bug in the origin project is https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2949, filed back in 2022 and which sat unmoved for several years until, probably not coincidentally, almost the same time yesterday that this appeared on Hacker News.

by LtWorf3 hours ago|

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My experience is that filing bug reports to ubuntu is a complete waste of time. Not sure if it's different for paying users.

by jeffbee17 hours ago|

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Reporting bugs before Ubuntu releases has never worked for me. They always land a bunch of major changes after the supposed "freeze" then they ignore all feedback because of the freeze. It's infuriating.

by collinfunk17 hours ago|

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Glad to hear that I am not alone. I feel like launchpad is totally ignored most of the time.

To get a response on a buggy GNU coreutils patch of theirs [1], I had to mention it in a rust-coreutils bug months later...

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/215...

by jabl3 hours ago|

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I've been a Ubuntu user for about 20 years, and I file bugs every now and then on launchpad. I don't recall any of them ever being fixed.

Maybe the bugs get traction if you have a service contract?

Best to file bugs directly to upstream, but that of course means you should try it on the latest upstream version and not whatever version ubuntu ships, so it's more friction.