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Source: mawk
Version: 1.3.3-19
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: regression
Dear maintainers,
With a recent upload of mawk the autopkgtest of mawk fails in testing
when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of mawk from
unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In tabular
form:
pass fail
mawk from testing 1.3.3-19
all others from testing from testing
I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The test
doesn't fail by itself, but apparently there is a new warning that is
printed to stderr that makes the autopkgtest fail. Either suppress that
warning, or add the allow-stderr restriction to the autopkgtest definition.
Currently this regression is blocking the migration to testing [1]. Can
you please investigate the situation and fix it?
More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
Paul
[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mawk
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/m/mawk/3793105/log.gz
autopkgtest [11:48:56]: test mawktest: [-----------------------
mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996, Copyright (C) Michael D. Brennan
testing input and field splitting
input and field splitting OK
testing regular expression matching
mawk: line 1: regular expression /a\\\\\\\\\ ... exceeds implementation
size limit
regular expression matching OK
testing checking for write errors
checking for write errors OK
testing arrays and flow of control
array test OK
testing function calls and general stress test
general stress test passed
tested mawk seems OK
autopkgtest [11:48:56]: test mawktest: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [11:48:56]: test mawktest: - - - - - - - - - - results - -
- - - - - - - -
mawktest FAIL stderr: mawk: line 1: regular expression
/a\\\\\\\\\ ... exceeds implementation size limit
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Source: mawk
Source-Version: 1.3.4.20260302-2
Done: Boyuan Yang <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mawk, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Boyuan Yang <[email protected]> (supplier of updated mawk package)
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:38:04 -0400
Source: mawk
Architecture: source
Version: 1.3.4.20260302-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Boyuan Yang <[email protected]>
Closes: 948929
Changes:
mawk (1.3.4.20260302-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* debian/tests/control: Drop the allow-stderr restriction; the
upstream test suite no longer writes to stderr with current mawk, so
the 2020 autopkgtest regression is gone. (Closes: #948929)
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