Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev · Oct 30 Did you hear that Rust broke Ubuntu updates? That's right, or at least that's what it seems like at first look. A component added to Ubuntu that's written in Rust was broken, and that prevented automatic updates.
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What's the fuller story? This issue is a software engineering problem, not a Rust programming language problem. Ubuntu has decided to replace an internal utility with one's that's written in Rust. The rewrite is incomplete and was missing a flag.
wait am I understanding correctly that the Rust replacement was used prematurely despite all the hard data and visualisations saying it's not ready?? I feel like that would be really frustrating for the uutils devs...