Bug#34652: PROPOSAL] Policy is not clear about nawk.
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Does anyone expect there to be a nawk program? If so, this suggestion
> > is moot. If not, we can probably just do away with it.
>
> Debian currently has five nawk scripts:
>
> /usr/sbin/mk-accessdb and /usr/sbin/mk-relaydb in sharc
> /usr/doc/texmf/mkhtml.nawk in tetex-base
> /usr/doc/vim-rt/examples/tools/mve.awk in vim-rt
> /usr/bin/zone-file-check in zone-file-check
>
> I see no reason to refrain from keeping the nawk link around.
> I also don't think this is a matter of policy; it should be up to
> the awk package maintainers.
>
> Richard Braakman
Fair enough. Then I suggest that this bug report is closed: the
reason that we need awk is that some programs expect a nawk program to
be present.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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