On 14 June 2005 at 12:25, Santiago Vila wrote:
| On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chris Lawrence wrote:
| 
| > On 6/13/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > > So I will back this out as far as the Depends goes, but keep the
| > > Build-Depends.
| > > 
| > > I also reassign this back from r-base-dev.
| > > 
| > > Chris:  You should adjust the offending package to do the same, i.e.
| > > 
| > >   Build-Depends: [....]  mawk | gawk | awk
| > > 
| > > on you should be set. All other R packages don't seem to care.
| > 
| > I'm not even sure the build-depends is necessary, since base-files is
| > Essential and depends on awk.  (Why lintian doesn't catch that too is
| > beyond me.)  As long as AWK=/usr/bin/awk according to R, we're good to
| > go.
| 
| This is exactly what I told Dirk in my very first message in this thread,
| but it seems I was not clear enough, so I'll repeat:

Seems like I'm a slow learner.

| Dirk: Please do not build-depend on "mawk | gawk | awk" as awk is essential.
| Just use AWK=/usr/bin/awk and everything should work.

Done. Will be effective by the next r-base upload, probably next Monday for
the 2.1.1 release.

Thanks, Dirk

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