Improve support of the Rust coreutils in Debian

Description of the project:

Homepage: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

An article about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/857599/

This project has two goals:

• propose a better way to replace the GNU Coreutils in Debian by the Rust Coreutils

• Improve the compatibility with GNU by fixing https://uutils.github.io/user/test_coverage.html and install/remove all Debian packages to make sure that all necessary features for Debian are well supported

• Confirmed Mentor: Sylvestre Ledru

• How to contact the mentor: sylvestre@debian.org

• Confirmed co-mentors: Terts Diepraam <terts.diepraam@gmail.com>

• Project size: 250 hours

• Deliverables of the project:

• Desirable skills: Rust, packaging

• What the intern will learn: How the coreutils work, the low level part of the of

• Application tasks: Fix a GNU test listed here https://uutils.github.io/user/test_coverage.html