Re: why is debian coreutils so old?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
>> 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.

I've just sent another followup to 422279 asking the original question
again, since the bug thread seems to have gotten sidetracked by the
utf-8 issue.

-Miles

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