[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#993374: cryptsetup: cryptdisks_* completion scripts depend on mawk

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Mon Oct 4 01:56:03 BST 2021


On Mon, 2021-10-04 at 02:21 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> I don't recall why I used mawk in
> b0b8e3e88fecf2f8f5f5a3ad39b68e56a9e53427,
> but it might be simply because it was advertized as “smaller and much
> faster than gawk” in addition of being ‘Priority: required’.  Fair
> enough, exectution speed is probably irrelevant for an interactive
> completion script :-)

Hmm I wonder then, why gawk has higher priority than makw in the
alternatives system.
Maybe one should suggest them to change that if it's really faster.


Cheers,
Chris.



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