Re: Dropping awk?
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> I noticed that Fedora 42 was released and their docker images lack a
> 'awk' tool. Debian trixie images ship with 'mawk' pre-installed right
> now. While I'm not convinced the removal game is necessarily a good
> one, I can see that it does have some advantages. Is it possible to
> drop 'mawk' from the set of default tools in trixie? If not, what are
> the blockers? What is the method to find out what the blockers are?
awk is in the essential set in Debian, so this would be a very substantial
amount of work. See the Pre-Depends in base-files, which is there to make
some awk implementation essential while still allowing the user to switch
between implementations.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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