Re: why is debian coreutils so old?
Sven Joachim wrote:
> You should probably ask the package maintainer directly. Some
> information is available at [1].
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/422279
That particular issue mostly has to do with UTF-8 support. So far all
of the patch suggestions for it (used by other distros) are quite ugly
with a lot of duplicated code and has been rejected by the upstream
maintainer. There really should be a better way to do this.
The inclusion of UTF-8 support and the issues surrounding the upgrade
to a newer coreutils in Debian are mostly independent. However even I
am not aware of the issues the Debian maintainer has with moving to a
newer coreutils. I would like to see it happen too.
Bob
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