They got 8 tests for date and it is supposed to be drop in replacement for coreutils? If they intend to produce one they would need to at least scrape all the uses of date that all ubuntu packages employ and then write test that check if the output of real date is equivalent to their rust cargo cult alternative.
That is absolutely true. At least is there was an intention to actually provide a replacement and then continue to maintain it. But there wasn't.
Make sure that you do not break anything because it is important that you do not break shit. Even that old old script that some user has been running on some forgotten system since 1997. You should not break it, even if he depends on some really obscure behavior.
Or at least, you should at least make an attempt to not break it. But this is rust trannies. They did not even try to make a good faith attempt to not break things. But even worse,
coreutils is the kind of package that you want to be well maintained for the next several decades.
Do you think these people will make that kind of commitment? You can not make any assumptions on the longevity of any maintenance promise. For all we know, after the next dilaltion session the troon might decide to abandon the project and switch to a different one.
Just look at that recent tokio-tar debacle from a few posts up.
The fucking package is abandoned, so they had to fix it in some of the forks of this package. But most of the forks were abandoned too.
One of the forks where the maintainer even responded just decided to archive the project instead of fixing it.
That is how trannies maintain shit. It is even worse than shit maintained by jeets.
You are legit insane if you use or depend on software "maintained" by a tranny.
The troon/rust lifecycle of software releases : PRA.
Port, Release, Abandon.
From here on the lifecycle of rust projects will be called PRA.