uutils is doing well, but needs to be carefully managed
uutils is doing well, but needs to be carefully managed
Posted Oct 24, 2025 4:04 UTC (Fri) by Keith.S.Thompson (guest, #133709)In reply to: uutils is doing well, but needs to be carefully managed by pixelbeat
Parent article: Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
Oddly, /usr/bin/false is a symlink to the Rust version, but /usr/bin/true is a symlink to the GNU C version.
I wonder whether that was a deliberate decision.
("true" and "false" are bash builtins, so the commands under /usr/bin probably aren't used very often.)
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