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mawk package

  1. Bug #1159933
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1159933

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [Bug 1159933] Re: mawk %d maxes out at 0x7FFFFFFF instead of 0xFFFFFFFF

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:45:24PM -0000, Robert Thorneycroft wrote:
> As Thomas Dickey above says mawk 1.3.4 at least allows unsigned int
> values up to 4294967295.
>
> Is there any reason the standard mawk package is stuck at 1.3.3? I have

yes - it's a problem with the package maintainer.
See the Debian bug-reports for mawk to get context.

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