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

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Mon Oct 4 00:17:36 BST 2021


On Mon, 2021-10-04 at 00:47 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> So?  I fail to see how that's relevant.  See §2.5 of the Debian
> Policy.

Well it means that the average user wouldn't get a warning if he
replaces e.g. mawk by gawk or original awk.

And as you said, since we only use the POSIX subset, I thought it would
be an improvement to use awk, and not fail in even the above situation.


Cheers,
Chris.



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