Re: Essentialness of awk

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> immo vero scripsit:

> This paragraph was added to fix Bug#50832 but if we follow it strictly
> then all the awk packages are in violation, since they use the
> alternative mechanism to update the awk symlink in /usr/awk and
> therefore "do not provide their core functionality until they are
> configured".

I'd rather document awk to be an exception to the clause 
because unilaterally loosening this clause will require us
to further patch the debootstrap phase.

Debootstrap (the Debian installation system) special-cases
awk, and creates a symlink.



regards,
	junichi


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