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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by 1718627440 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:31PM (#45707497)
"GNU grep added a warning to inform you of the deprecation which happened 28 years ago, but only to stderr, and still works like you expect", does to me.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by ajross on Saturday October 25, 2025 @07:13PM (#45707703)
Meh. Look, it broke code. "Still works like you expect" is 100% false.

The deprecation argument is at least... arguable. It was indeed retired from POSIX. But needless deprecation is itself a smell in a situation where you can't audit all the code that uses it. Don't do that. It breaks stuff. It broke the updates in the linked article too. If you have an API, leave it there absent extremely strong arguments for its removal.

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