Dear all, any news about updating Mawk with the last upstream version?
Regards Yann 2012/5/28 Gert Hulselmans <hulselmansg...@gmail.com> > The Debian version of mawk has a lot of bugs (v1.3.3) > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mawk;dist=unstable > > Thomas Dickey (other dev than the original mawk dev) has an improved > version of mawk (without those bugs): > ftp://invisible-island.net/mawk/ > > but for some reason the debian maintainer doesn't want to update. > > > Thomas Dickey: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If the Debian packager were responding, it would be about a week. > However, he's ignored most of my bug reports (aside from the one > about incorrect license). > > Look here - I've marked fixed-upstream on the ones that I believe are > done... > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=mawk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/400409 > > > I use the fixed version of mawk a lot for my work. > > If you can force the debian maintainer to update mawk, I would be happy. > > I tried it a while back, but failed. > > One of my bug reports at Ubuntu (still not any comment on it): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/716920 > > It would be nice to get it bumped by somebody else. > > - Gert > > 2012/5/27 yannubu...@gmail.com <yannubu...@gmail.com>: > > Hello Gert, > > > > Mawk package description says, that "Mawk is smaller and much faster than > > gawk". > > What about using Mawk instead of Gawk in BIS ? > > > > Regards > > Yann >
