With mawk 1.3.4.20200120-1 being uploaded to Debian testing now I
suggest to mark this bug here as invalid and just sync the new mawk
version to Focal. There is a separate bug for just updating mawk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/1332114 Let's follow
up there...
** Changed
I would prefer to have a current mawk in Ubuntu, but if that does not
happen, replacing mawk with gawk would be appreciated.
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Title:
Consider
** Also affects: ubuntu-mate-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubuntu-mate-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Tags added: eoan
** Tags removed: amd64 indeed wayland-session
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We (Indeed) were recently hit by mawk posix non-compliance as well. For
all the reasons stated above, I would also like to see mawk replaced
with gawk in main. I'd also like to see the mawk dependencies in the
ubuntu-meta packages replaced with gawk. For that reason I'm opening a
separate
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: mawk (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
NetBSD pkgsrc has a more recent version of mawk than stated in this
report:
http://pkgsrc.se/lang/mawk
2019-02-15) Updated to version: mawk-1.3.4.20171017
MacPorts has the 2019-02-03 version:
https://github.com/macports/macports-
ports/blob/master/lang/mawk/Portfile
The report as worded
Updated the description to include links to your current snapshots.
Sorry for not finding them in the first place.
** Description changed:
For POSIX compatibility reasons Ubuntu ships with mawk ("Mike's awk" =
mawk) in main. There is an awk-symlink to mawk, thus mawk is the
official awk
I updated the webpage last week, to reduce confusion:
https://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html
However, back to the stated issue: if the packager follows the same
guidelines as previously stated (100% compatibility with the existing
scripts, no effort whatsoever required of the packager),
