Should the plugins build-depend on awk?

[Thomas Schmidt]

Hi,

sorry for the late answer, i am pretty busy atm, so i could not look
at this earlier.

* Tobias Grimm schrieb am 23.01.07, um 09:51 Uhr:
> Kano recently pointed out, that awk should not be used during the build
> or a build dependency should be added. As he told me, Ubuntu does not
> provide awk by default.
> 
> So the question is, should the plugins that use awk in their Makefile
> depend on awk?
> 
> I checked the Source.gz of Etch and could find only 95 packages with a
> build dependency to awk. But I'm pretty sure, a lot more do use awk
> during the build process.

Well, the package mawk has Priority: required which means that a
Essential package depends on it. So at least mawk should be installed
on every Debian System, which means that this build dependency should 
not be necessary on a System running Debian.

I understand that it is a problem if Ubuntu does not install awk by
default, in this case it should not hurt if we add awk to the
build-dependencies.


Regards,
Thomas

-- 
Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
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