Andrew,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:00:51PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> > Hmmm, yes, conceivably.
>
> Raising a bug...

Thanks.

I am pretty conflicted here. To me the real downside is that Debian's coreutils
has over 450[1] bugs. If we fork the package, in effect we inherit
responsibility for fixing them. That is pretty unattractive with the current
person-power available.

Needs more thought....

Mark

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=coreutils