Boot-Repair

Mawk 1.3.3 is buggy, it should be updated with new upstream version

Bug #1005077 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Boot-Repair
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned
Mawk
New
Unknown

Bug Description

Why boot-repair recommends gawk package, isn't standart mawk (which is included into Ubuntu CD as default) not enough?
Mawk package description says, that "Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk" :)
Please recommend "mawk | gawk" package instead of only gawk.

EDIT: Mawk 1.3.3 is too buggy to be used by Boot-Repair. Debian should update Mawk with upstream version. ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167 )

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YannUbuntu (yannubuntu) wrote :

Thanks for the suggestion. I will discuss this with upstream (gawk is used by Boot-Info-Script) and come back to you ASAP.

Changed in boot-repair:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
YannUbuntu (yannubuntu) wrote :

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

summary: - Recommend mawk|gawk package instead of only gawk - mawk is included in
- Ubuntu CD as default
+ Mawk 1.3.3 is buggy, it should be updated with new upstream version
Changed in boot-repair:
status: New → Triaged
description: updated
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in mawk:
status: Unknown → New
YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)
Changed in boot-repair:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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