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Author: Andreas Messer
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To: Mark Hindley
CC: Andrew Bower, 904
Subject: [devuan-dev] bug#904: bug#904: coreutils: key package depends on libsystemd
Am Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 04:19:43PM +0100 schrieb Mark Hindley:
> 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.


Would we really need to fix bugs which are also present in Debian package.
As long as they are not fixed there, we're not worse than the Debian
version.

For me this dependency is very questionable too.

cheers,
Andreas

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