Re: Virtual packages (was Re: Bug#64006:)
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I've just read through the virtual packages list, and there's barely a
> > virtual package which either doesn't do this already, for example awk
> > says:
> > awk Anything providing suitable /usr/bin/{awk,nawk} (*)
>
> Actually, if we want to follow common standards, we should deprecate "nawk",
> there are several reasons for that:
>
> * Every implementation of awk in Debian support functions.
> * The Single Unix Specification says "awk" support functions.
> * SUS says nothing about "/usr/bin/nawk" having to be available.
>
> The same way we say "(POSIX) shell scripts should use /bin/sh and not
> /bin/bash" we should probably say "awk scripts should use /usr/bin/awk,
> not /usr/bin/nawk".
Are there a significant number of pieces of software which depend on
nawk? Is there any harm in requiring there to be a nawk -> awk
symlink?
Dunno.
Julian
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