The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date comman [...]

Ignoring the anti-GPL nature of Rust rewrites, it seems that it has been foolish to roll out rust-coreutils wholesale instead of perhaps an option to be selected while installing from the live image, which would almost certainly have lead to enthusiasts testing these utilities; and after enough data had been collected could then have been put in the main branch.

This bug report is old so it should have been fixed by now, but I wanted to commentate on rust-coreutils.

  • trompete [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You’ll be fine on vanilla Debian for basically all these things. If you need newer drivers or a newer version of some program, you can check the Debian backports repo; they recompile stuff from testing for stable. Includes newer kernels and bunch of other stuff. It will only install (and update) stuff you manually install from backports, the rest of the system stays on stable.

    If that doesn’t cut it, you can always run testing itself. Since packages migrate from unstable to testing (after like two weeks or so) only if they do not have serious bugs and all their dependencies are already met, testing is (basically) never in a broken state. If you put the codename, instead of “testing” in the sources.list, it’ll just turn into stable when that’s released. The backports are pretty safe also when upgrading, since they’re never newer than testing or the next stable.