Please update mawk to latest upstream release

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

mawk in Ubuntu is 18 years old and very buggy (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=mawk and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk , also bugs in other products, like bug #1331381) :(

Almost all bugs, reported in Ubuntu and Debian are fixed in 1.3.4-nnnn upstream releases, see http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html

Please update mawk to latest upstream release - all the other major distributions (Fedora/Redhat, Suse, even FreeBSD) have switched to mawk 1.3.4-2014nnnn. Five years since the bug asking to upload new mawk in Debian didn't change anything, so, I'm reporting bug in Ubuntu - sticking to 1.3.3 is now causing headeach to lots of people rather than saving from regressions, see for example bug #1005077 :(

Please, update mawk package before major Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

Mythbuntu 14.04 uses mawk as default awk, so it is important to fixed it.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Marking Importance: Wishlist based on the corresponding Debian bug. If there are specific issues causing real problems for users, then please use separate bugs to help us track the actual issues and assess their importance individually and objectively. "It's buggy" isn't particularly helpful on its own.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

Also Xubuntu 14.04, and all latest releases of Lubuntu have only mawk installed, by default, not gawk (according to Distrowatch).

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Please stop changing the subject line. How old it is doesn't have a bearing on anything. Some software moves slowly.

[amano (jyaku)]

Version 1.3.4.20200120-1 was updated in Debian and migrated to testing on January 31th.

Please sync that version to Focal, the current version in the archive is from 2012!!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/1.3.4.20200120-2