Package: original-awk Version: 2012-12-20-6 Severity: wishlist Even 30 years after the "new awk" appeared in Bell Labs, people seem to think that /usr/bin/awk might be provided by an ancient program lacking standard features, and prefer nawk over awk.
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%23%21%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fnawk One such example is a 14 year old helper script in dpatch for which I have just reported bug #868978. While such problems should be fixed, maybe it would make sense for original-awk to provide a /usr/bin/nawk symlink like mawk and gawk do. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.12.2-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages original-awk depends on: ii libc6 2.24-12 original-awk recommends no packages. original-awk suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
