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Maybe Ubuntu changed since I last used it. I looked and it looks like interim means non-LTS.
coreutils is, well, important. It’s fine to bring new software in, but you have to test it. And they haven’t tested enough.
Ubuntu has, at least long stretches of the past decade, been a really good server and desktop for me. Having bugs that prevent updates is not acceptable for a server OS. Yes, you should be able to manually intervene but I expect a higher standard from Ubuntu.
Changes like swapping out coreutils for the rust variant really needs to go through Debian first. Are there bugs that trickle through Debian? Yes. But Debian is stable. Ubuntu should be too. They are basically testing a core function in production. Ubuntu releases are not supposed to be betas. At least, historically, that has held true.
They abolished alpha and beta versions because Canonical's QA is so good, they don't need them any longer...
Clearly.