Re: Bug#13839: gawk manpage symlink is completely useless. (fwd)

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

[snip]
> >$ ls -li gawk*
> >
> >  54187 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root       150160 mar  7  1997 gawk
> >  54187 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root       150160 mar  7  1997 gawk-3.0.2
> >
> >This manpage is not needed at all, unless you want to read "there should
> >be a man page for each binary" as "there should be a man page for each
> >item in /usr/bin".

IMHO, we don't need to have a man page for gawk-3.0.2. 

However, what's the purpose of having this binary installed anyways? Since
dpkg won't allow you to install two different versions of gawk at the same
time, I'm wondering why we don't remove gawk-3.0.2.


Thanks,

Chris

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