Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
10 points by varjag
10 points by varjag
it’s definitely unfortunate that this made it past qa and everything, but this is also exactly why they wanted to try out the change before the next lts: to find bugs
working as intended in that regard!
I don't really think that Ubuntu non-LTS releases are meant to be something like Debian testing.
They aren't in general, but here it was the case.
My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.
(quote from the article, not the comments)
Sucks that this bug made it into a full release. A good reminder to use todo!() or panic!() for paths that aren't complete yet instead of just leaving them. Happy Ubuntu is doing this it'll be great to have multiple implementations of utils.
I can't find it linked anywhere, I think the fix in question might be this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8907
Is there a relevant bug on the Ubuntu side that might confirm?
Given that GNU coreutils very recently added a test for --reference, I suspect this was fixed by https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/88a7fa7adfa048dabdffc99451d7aba1d9e6a9b6