According to Gert (BootInfoScript maintainer), Gawk is currently needed instead of Mawk because the current version of Mawk (1.3.3) is buggy.
Many bugs of Mawk are fixed in a new upstream version, but the Debian maintainer does not want to update for an obscure reason.
We need to push here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167
According to Gert (BootInfoScript maintainer), Gawk is currently needed instead of Mawk because the current version of Mawk (1.3.3) is buggy. bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 554167
Many bugs of Mawk are fixed in a new upstream version, but the Debian maintainer does not want to update for an obscure reason.
We need to push here: http://