Re: Bug#2378: Gawk postinst script does not work correctly
Chris Fearnley writes:
> Nope, it's a design decision I made (as package maintainer for mawk and
> gawk). gawk is too slow and too big for our base series (IMO), but
> useful (due to its extensions) for awk hackers (so I recommended that
> mawk go into the base series and gawk into the devel series). mawk is
> fully POSIX complient. Therefore, IMO mawk should be the default. I
> have done some gawk vs. mawk performance tests
I have no problem with that. But in this case the postinst script should not
say it updates the links to go to mawk. They were already on mawk, so it
should say 'leaving the links as they are' or something like that. Isn't it
possible to include a short note that tells the user (if he reads it that
is) that it will not install gawk as a default.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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