On Saturday, July 18 2020, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 19:09, Nicholas Guriev <guriev...@ya.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ubuntu developers,
>>
>> GNU coreutils 8.32 have been released on March 6th, 2020, yet the
>> package is not updated in groovy. The new version has enhanced support
>> of file creation time in stat(1) and introduced the "--time=birth" sort
>> rule for ls(1). It would be great to have these features in the coming
>> Ubuntu release. Please take a look at my merge request LP#1888046.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1888046
>>
>> Debian revision of the package has not migrated to testing yet due to
>> build failure on ARM64. Is there a chance to get the update for AMD64 at
>> least?
>>
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=coreutils&arch=arm64&ver=8.32-2&stamp=1592917386&raw=0
>>
>
> There are patches applied to coreutils to Ubuntu, thus it will need a merge.
>
> Separate architectures are not updated separately. Packages must match
> across architectures, and not regress in the support. Ubuntu supports
> 7 architectures, and coreutils must be build on them all.
>
> The issue might be related to the kernel headers shipped vs expected,
> and the problem may or may not reproduce on Ubuntu, as our kernels are
> different. It doesn't seem like a hard thing to fix on arm64.

Hey,

I'd like to give it a try at merging coreutils.  I'll see if I can do it
tomorrow.

Thanks,

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