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

[Guilhem Moulin]

Control: tag -1 = pending

On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 at 00:09:41 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 22:14 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
>> mawk has ‘Priority: required’ and is expressive enough for this
>> use-case.  Why should we use something else?
> 
> Well, at least it's not Essential.

So?  I fail to see how that's relevant.  See §2.5 of the Debian Policy.

> E.g. base-files (Pre-)Depends simply on the virtual Package awk, which
> is provided by all three implementations.
> 
> There also seem to be much more packages which depend on e.g. gawk (66)
> than on mawk (16).

There might be reasons to depend on gawk, but that seems irrelevant for
the case at hand.  Also these numbers are skewed since ‘Priority:
required’ packages don't need explicit unversioned Depends.

Anyway, did s/mawk/awk/ if that makes you happy…  We are only using
functions from the POSIX subset so any implementation should work,
including busybox's.

-- 
Guilhem.
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