[Bug 2125058] Re: the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils (configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC)

[Sebastien Bacher]

It's a bit similar to bug #2114731 , one way would be to make the rust
coreutils include "GNU" somehow in their description string, other
option is to just patch the assumption out...

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Title:
  the autopkgtest are failing with rust-coreutils (configure: error:
  date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC)

Status in kronosnet package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The current questing-proposed migration report states

   kronosnet blocking build-essential (12.12ubuntu1 to 12.12ubuntu2) for
  13 days

      Regressions
          kronosnet/1.31-1ubuntu1: amd64 (log, history), arm64 (log, history), armhf (log, history), ppc64el (log, history), s390x (log, history)

  Log example
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-questing/questing/amd64/k/kronosnet/20250917_144652_6b737@/log.gz

  The error seems to be

  123s checking for BSD date... configure: error: date utility unable to convert epoch to UTC
  123s no
  123s checking for date type... unknown

  The new build-essential basically forces pull in rust-coreutils, so
  probably an issue with those and the tests will get red for any
  trigger once the autopkgtest images are refreshed to do gnu->uutils

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