Worse: I am writing angry and not particularly respectful comments about things that mostly happened/did not happen before I was born and very obviously those things should not be judged by what I would consider an ideal outcome by the standards of today, at least not before sending in a few patches to help with that. Sorry.

Your work, specifically your attention to the reusability/portability of GNU tests intensifying at the same time the uutils project started to close in on the remaining unusable (for that purpose) tests, is very much appreciated and has helped me well beyond its original scope.