The Debian version of mawk has a lot of bugs (v1.3.3)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mawk;dist=unstable
Thomas Dickey (other dev than the original mawk dev) has an improved
version of mawk (without those bugs):
ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/
but for some reason the debian maintainer doesn't want to update.
Thomas Dickey:
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If the Debian packager were responding, it would be about a week.
However, he's ignored most of my bug reports (aside from the one
about incorrect license).
Look here - I've marked fixed-upstream on the ones that I believe are
done...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=mawk
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/400409
I use the fixed version of mawk a lot for my work.
If you can force the debian maintainer to update mawk, I would be happy.
I tried it a while back, but failed.
One of my bug reports at Ubuntu (still not any comment on it):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/716920
It would be nice to get it bumped by somebody else.
- Gert
2012/5/27 yannubuntu@gmail.com <yannubuntu@gmail.com>:
> Hello Gert,
>
> Mawk package description says, that "Mawk is smaller and much faster than
> gawk".
> What about using Mawk instead of Gawk in BIS ?
>
> Regards
> Yann