Bug#61741: Shouldn't build-essential depend on awk?

[Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@gmx.de>]

    >> Packages like perl-base and ncurses-base are definitely not
    >> needed to build a Hello World type package.

    > Yes they are, as without them the system is broken.

The system is also broken if awk isn't installed. libc6.postinst and
dpkg.postinst use it, for example.

I think, the only reason why awk isn't marked essential is that it
would make it impossible to switch between mawk and gawk.  I also
think, that base-files depends on awk because of this.

awk should therefore be added to the file "/usr/share/doc/
build-essential/essential-packages-list".

At least, I'm not going to add it to my "Build-Depends".