This is not a bug in ubuntu-meta. It doesn't matter whether an older version of Ubuntu gave you gawk (in addition to mawk) by default, bash-completion should not be using gawk extensions without declaring a dependency on gawk (and invoking gawk by name).
This is not a bug in ubuntu-meta. It doesn't matter whether an older version of Ubuntu gave you gawk (in addition to mawk) by default, bash-completion should not be using gawk extensions without declaring a dependency on gawk (and invoking gawk by name).