Control: tag -1 = pending On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 at 00:09:41 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 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.
So? I fail to see how that's relevant. See §2.5 of the Debian Policy. > 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). There might be reasons to depend on gawk, but that seems irrelevant for the case at hand. Also these numbers are skewed since ‘Priority: required’ packages don't need explicit unversioned Depends. Anyway, did s/mawk/awk/ if that makes you happy… We are only using functions from the POSIX subset so any implementation should work, including busybox's. -- Guilhem.
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