Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by jeffbee on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:15AM (#49698367)

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.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by collinfunk on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:17AM (#49698412)

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...

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by jabl on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:08AM (#49708378)

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.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by b112 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:51AM (#49710045)

Upstream for much is Debian, but of course Ubuntu forks from testing, and then modifies...

But if you can identify it as a bug in a version in Debian, that's a good place to file, as Ubuntu will get the fix eventually.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils by gdevenyi on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:35AM (#49710366)

Reporting bugs _at all_ in Ubuntu has never worked for me.

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