It is expressly described as an experiment. Making it the default does not preclude it being an experiment. It’s how you get broad enough usage to see if it’s ready. If it isn’t by the time for LTS, then it’ll be unmade as the default. That’s what an experiment is.
Of course it’s not exempt from criticism. But suggesting something is permanent and final when it expressly is not is a poor criticism.
All software has bugs. Plus, not every bug is in the test suite. There are open bugs in all of the software shipped by every distro. Software can be ready for use even if there are know bugs in corner cases. Regular coreutils has open bugs as well.
> But suggesting something is permanent and final when it expressly is not is a poor criticism.
No one did this.
> All software has bugs. Plus, not every bug is in the test suite. There are open bugs in all of the software shipped by every distro. Software can be ready for use even if there are know bugs in corner cases. Regular coreutils has open bugs as well.
Stop speaking as if other people know nothing of software development. GNU do not break compatibility knowingly and with no user benefit.
Canonical broke compatibility knowingly and with no user benefit when they made these utilities default in Ubuntu 25.10. The point was saying the GNU utilities had bugs was specious.
