Re: awk is "de facto essential"

To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: lintian-maint@debian.org, David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: awk is "de facto essential"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:53:59 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1229042980.3488.24.camel@deadeye.i.decadent.org.uk> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Fri\, 12 Dec 2008 00\:49\:40 +0000")
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Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> lintian complains about dependencies on awk: "awk is a virtual package,
> but it is special since it's de facto essential."
>
> So far as I can see, the highest-priority implementation of awk is mawk,
> which is Priority: required but not Essential.  What is the basis for
> this "de facto essential"?

Package: base-files
Essential: yes
Priority: required
[...]
Pre-Depends: awk

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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