Bug#34652: PROPOSAL] Policy is not clear about nawk.
On policy, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> > Yes, I see what you are saying, but why should we worry about tweaking
> > upstream software in various packages (and who knows which they'll end
> > up being?) to use "awk" instead of "nawk" when we can simply provide a
> > nawk -> awk symlink in every awk package?
>
> We could say the same for /bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl, but we don't.
> Where is the difference?
Historical note: If my Debian history is right (unlikely I am new at this),
there used to be a symlink /usr/spool/mail -> /var/spool/mail (or something
like that I forget). It was removed to test which packages still used it,
because policy was that it should not be used. Similar situation?
--
I consume, therefore I am
Reply to: