[Hendrikto]

1. Some of those recent bugs were caused by unnecessary vibe-coded changes.

2. Of course bugs should be fixed. I even say so in the comment you replied to. You are attacking a strawman.

3. People will always make feature requests. Some want rsync to be able to make a sandwich. That is not really in-scope for the project though.

I think the GNU coreutils are doing this largely right. New features are almost never added. ls, for example, is pretty much complete, and too foundational to mess around with. If you need fancy new features, use something like eza.

[throwaway7356]

> Some of those recent bugs were caused by unnecessary vibe-coded changes.

If you think that fixing security issues is "unnecessary changes", maybe.

Though maybe security is not "in-scope" for you?

> That is not really in-scope for the project though.

Why do you decide what is in scope for the rsync project and what not?

Apparently the maintainer disagrees and also wants to fix existing security issues.

[Hendrikto]

> > People will [make] requests [that] rsync [should be able] to make a sandwich. That is not really in-scope for the project though.

> Why do you decide what is in scope for the rsync project and what not?

If you are arguing for making sandwiches being in scope for rsync, you proved that you are just a troll. We have reached the end of reasonable discussion.