[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#589176: xen-utils-common: replace gawk with awk in scripts and Depends

[Marvin Renich]

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.0.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

I am not a gawk/mawk expert, but I looked carefully at the few uses of
gawk that I saw in /etc/xen/scripts/vtpm-common.sh and network-bridge,
and I did not see anything that was gawk-specific.  It would be nice if
they could be changed to awk and the dependency on gawk removed.

base-files is Essential: yes and it PreDepends: awk.  I am not sure, but
I think this means that other packages do not need an explicit Depends:
awk.  The attached patch does not modify debian/control, but it replaces
gawk with awk in the above two named scripts.

I have not tested the changes in context, as I have no idea what vtpm
is, and can't put network bridge through normal use until bug 588888 is
solved, but I did test the change from network-bridge manually by
extracting the pipeline where gawk was used and trying it with both gawk
and mawk and comparing the results.

...Marvin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-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

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23.1       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                      158-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  xenstore-utils            4.0.1~rc3-1    Xenstore utilities for Xen

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

xen-utils-common suggests no packages.

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