On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 22:14 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > mawk has ‘Priority: required’ and is expressive enough for this > use-case. Why should we use something else?
Well, at least it's not Essential. E.g. base-files (Pre-)Depends simply on the virtual Package awk, which is provided by all three implementations. There also seem to be much more packages which depend on e.g. gawk (66) than on mawk (16). So if your awk snippet runs with all implementations, why not simply depending on awk... and use the /usr/bin/awk alternative? Cheers, Chris.
