Re: Dropping awk?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 08:09:38AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>...
> It leads us to analyzing the effort and impact. Being in the essential
> set means that dependencies are not spelled out. So the first step is
> locating those dependencies. As we will likely not be able to audit
> Debian's source code for awk uses in a reasonable amount of time,
> empirical methods are likely needed.
> * Rebuild the archive with awk dropped and see what fails
> * Consider using reproducible builds to additionally see what packages
> change as a result of dropping awk (for those that happen to be
> reproducible)
>...
Tools like awk/sed/perl would have to stay part of the build
essential set if they get dropped from the essential set.
Example:
/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4:AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_AWK])dnl
> Helmut
cu
Adrian
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