Package: coreutils
Version: 9.5-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu questing ubuntu-patch
In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
Rename the binary package to gnu-coreutils and build binaries with 'gnu' prefix.
The prefix choice is debatable, like many years ago I added `g` and
`gnu` as supported prefixes to apt's test suite for FreeBSD and friends,
and I'd have preferred `g` but `gcp` and `gstat` and a bunch of others
are already taken.
This patch could be uploaded to experimental, and in combination with
the new coreutils-from package which takes over the coreutils binary
and provides several coreutils-from-{gnu,uutils,toybox,busybox}
binaries would then provide an upgrade path.
An alternative choice can be made where GNU coreutils would not
be co-installable with other coreutils and coreutils itself
instead provides coreutils-from; and adds protective diversions
for switches with other coreutils-from providers.
However, it stands to reason that having the ability to run
say gnucp when say cp from uutils is insufficient is helpful; but
it may be less useful for Debian if it doesn't want to switch the
default (and the toybox/busybox cases are for minimizing image size,
you don't want co-installability).
For Ubuntu we had to do a rename of some sort, such that the
coreutils binary upgrades people to coreutils-from-uutils.
Thanks for considering the patch.
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Kernel: Linux 6.14.0-15-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/control coreutils-9.5/debian/control
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/control 2025-04-25 08:55:05.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/control 2025-05-08 11:06:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
Source: coreutils
-Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
-XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Michael Stone <[email protected]>
+Maintainer: Michael Stone <[email protected]>
Section: utils
Priority: required
Standards-Version: 4.5.0
Build-Depends: gettext (>= 0.10.37), debhelper-compat (= 13), texinfo (>=
4.2), groff, libattr1-dev [linux-any], libacl1-dev [linux-any], libselinux1-dev
(>= 1.32) [linux-any], gperf, bison, libgmp3-dev, libssl-dev, libsystemd-dev
-Package: coreutils
+Package: gnu-coreutils
Architecture: any
Multi-Arch: foreign
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Pre-Depends}
-Essential: yes
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Breaks: usrmerge (<< 39)
+Replaces: coreutils (<< 9.5-1ubuntu2~)
Description: GNU core utilities
This package contains the basic file, shell and text manipulation
utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system.
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.dirs
coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.dirs
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.dirs 2025-04-25 08:55:05.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.dirs 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-usr/share/doc/coreutils
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.NEWS
coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.NEWS
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.NEWS 2025-04-25 08:55:05.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.NEWS 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-coreutils (8.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
-
- GNU coreutils package now includes the `realpath' command that used to
- be found in a separate `realpath' package.
-
- Even though the GNU version provides all the features of the old Debian
- version, the behaviour is a bit different, namely:
-
- * GNU `realpath' and `realpath -s' commands require all but the
- last path components to exist
-
- whereas:
-
- * Debian version of `realpath' required all the path components to exist;
- * Debian version of `realpath -s' required no path components to exist.
-
- To get the old behaviour in GNU `realpath' an additional option needs
- to be used:
-
- Old Debian realpath New GNU coreutils realpath
- ----------------------- ----------------------------
- realpath file(s) => realpath -e file(s)
- realpath -s file(s) => realpath -s -m file(s)
-
- -- Robert Luberda <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:08:14 +0200
-
-coreutils (5.96-3) unstable; urgency=low
-
- * The POSIX compatibility level is now set to POSIX 1003.1-2001,
- which affects the syntax for several commands. For transition
- purposes, "sort +number" and "tail +number" will be supported
- for the etch release. Note that these usages are deprecated, and
- will be removed in etch+1; the recommended usage is "sort -k number"
- and "tail -n +number". Also, "uniq +number" should be replaced with
- "uniq -s number" and "touch number filename" should be replaced with
- "touch -t number filename". To revert to the older syntax, set the
- environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION to "199209".
-
- -- Michael Stone <[email protected]> Sat, 27 May 2006 12:56:18 -0400
-
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.README.Debian
coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.README.Debian
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.README.Debian 2025-04-25
08:55:05.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/coreutils.README.Debian 1970-01-01
01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Most of the coreutils documentation is available as info pages. (Try "info
-coreutils" at a command prompt). A version of this documentation is also
-available online at
-http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html
-(Note that the online version may not reflect the version of coreutils in this
-package.)
-
-There is also a frequently asked questions document available at
-http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html
-
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.dirs
coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.dirs
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.dirs 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.dirs 2025-05-08 11:06:23.000000000
+0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/share/doc/gnu-coreutils
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.NEWS
coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.NEWS
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.NEWS 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.NEWS 2025-05-08 11:06:23.000000000
+0200
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+coreutils (8.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ GNU coreutils package now includes the `realpath' command that used to
+ be found in a separate `realpath' package.
+
+ Even though the GNU version provides all the features of the old Debian
+ version, the behaviour is a bit different, namely:
+
+ * GNU `realpath' and `realpath -s' commands require all but the
+ last path components to exist
+
+ whereas:
+
+ * Debian version of `realpath' required all the path components to exist;
+ * Debian version of `realpath -s' required no path components to exist.
+
+ To get the old behaviour in GNU `realpath' an additional option needs
+ to be used:
+
+ Old Debian realpath New GNU coreutils realpath
+ ----------------------- ----------------------------
+ realpath file(s) => realpath -e file(s)
+ realpath -s file(s) => realpath -s -m file(s)
+
+ -- Robert Luberda <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:08:14 +0200
+
+coreutils (5.96-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * The POSIX compatibility level is now set to POSIX 1003.1-2001,
+ which affects the syntax for several commands. For transition
+ purposes, "sort +number" and "tail +number" will be supported
+ for the etch release. Note that these usages are deprecated, and
+ will be removed in etch+1; the recommended usage is "sort -k number"
+ and "tail -n +number". Also, "uniq +number" should be replaced with
+ "uniq -s number" and "touch number filename" should be replaced with
+ "touch -t number filename". To revert to the older syntax, set the
+ environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION to "199209".
+
+ -- Michael Stone <[email protected]> Sat, 27 May 2006 12:56:18 -0400
+
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.README.Debian
coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.README.Debian
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.README.Debian 1970-01-01
01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/gnu-coreutils.README.Debian 2025-05-08
11:06:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Most of the coreutils documentation is available as info pages. (Try "info
+coreutils" at a command prompt). A version of this documentation is also
+available online at
+http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html
+(Note that the online version may not reflect the version of coreutils in this
+package.)
+
+There is also a frequently asked questions document available at
+http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html
+
diff -Nru coreutils-9.5/debian/rules coreutils-9.5/debian/rules
--- coreutils-9.5/debian/rules 2025-04-25 08:55:05.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-9.5/debian/rules 2025-05-08 11:04:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
#export DH_OPTIONS=-v
+PROGRAM_PREFIX := gnu
+PACKAGE_PREFIX := gnu-
+
DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS = 1
include /usr/share/dpkg/default.mk
@@ -23,13 +26,13 @@
BIN_PROGS = cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd df dir echo false ln ls mkdir \
mknod mv pwd readlink rm rmdir vdir sleep stty sync touch true uname \
mktemp
-d=debian/coreutils
+d=debian/$(PACKAGE_PREFIX)coreutils
override_dh_auto_configure:
ifeq ($(cross_build),yes)
echo 'fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes' > config.cache
endif
- dh_auto_configure -- --enable-systemd --enable-install-program=arch
--with-openssl=auto-gpl-compat $(CROSS_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)
+ dh_auto_configure -- --program-prefix=gnu --enable-systemd
--enable-install-program=arch --with-openssl=auto-gpl-compat
$(CROSS_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)
%:
dh $@ --with autoreconf
@@ -74,26 +77,30 @@
override_dh_install-arch:
dh_install -a
+ifeq ($(PROGRAM_PREFIX),)
# backward compatability
ln -s /usr/bin/md5sum $(d)/usr/bin/md5sum.textutils
ln -s /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1
$(d)/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1
+endif
# remove stuff provided by other packages
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),linux)
# kill from procps is linux-specific
- rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/kill $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/kill.1
+ rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)kill
$(d)/usr/share/man/man1/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)kill.1
endif
- rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/hostname $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1
- rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/uptime $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1
+ rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)hostname
$(d)/usr/share/man/man1/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)hostname.1
+ rm -f $(d)/usr/bin/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)uptime
$(d)/usr/share/man/man1/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)uptime.1
+ifeq ($(PROGRAM_PREFIX),)
# the [ program doesn't have its own man page yet
ln -s test.1 $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/[.1
+endif
# gnu thinks chroot is in bin, debian thinks it's in sbin
install -d $(d)/usr/sbin $(d)/usr/share/man/man8
- mv $(d)/usr/bin/chroot $(d)/usr/sbin/chroot
- sed s/\"1\"/\"8\"/1 $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1 >
$(d)/usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8
- rm $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1
+ mv $(d)/usr/bin/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)chroot
$(d)/usr/sbin/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)chroot
+ sed s/\"1\"/\"8\"/1 $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)chroot.1 >
$(d)/usr/share/man/man8/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)chroot.8
+ rm $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)chroot.1
# some build environments will leave a dangling info dir
rm -f $(d)/usr/share/info/dir
@@ -102,5 +109,5 @@
NEWS README \
THANKS \
TODO \
- $(d)/usr/share/doc/coreutils
+ $(d)/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE_PREFIX)coreutils
