Package: mawk
Version: 1.3.3-17
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
What led up to the situation?
Discovered the issue when searching Debian Code Search for "19%y".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
sh /usr/share/doc/mawk/examples/hical
* What was the outcome of this action?
Current year shown as 1917
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Current year shown as 2017
Fix suggestion 1: change 19%y to %Y in the script.
Fix suggestion 2: take the fixed version from upstream mawk 1.3.4.
The script has also some more bugs fixed upstream since - its shebang
points at /usr/sh which does not exist, and the echo command needs an
extra -e or the output will contain literal \n instead of line feeds.
All this is fixed upstream.
The issue is still present on sid, 1.3.3-17.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages mawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10
mawk recommends no packages.
mawk suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
