[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#557186: libsnmp-base: depends on gawk, but never uses it explicitly

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libsnmp-base
Version: 5.4.2.1~dfsg-3
Severity: normal

libsnmp-base depends on gawk.  However, in the source package, the only
use of gawk is in debian/control.  All the other uses are plain "awk".
Even if gawk is installed, it is not guaranteed that it is the awk
alternative (root may have changed it to, e.g., mawk).

The most preferable alternative is that you change whatever it is to
work on all awks: there are many good reasons to prefer mawk over gawk
(such as speed).  Alternatively, you can keep the dependency but fix
whatever script needs it to call gawk explicitly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- no debconf information

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