Hello Paride.

Paride Legovini wrote in <51a57013-4f24-0faa-0cc1-c37d50102c1b@ninthfloo\
r.org>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 01/04/2019:
 |> Paride Legovini wrote in <2fd8fca2-2372-e0fe-a91a-09dfcb354a56@ninthfloo\
 |> r.org>:
 |> 
 |> You were not whitelisted, what a shame.  Now fixed.
 |> 
 |>|Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 27/03/2019:
 |>  ..
 |>|> SZÉPE Viktor wrote in <20190326180547.Horde._EbhpsqSnQMR0YPAmel-vmA@sze\
 |>|> \
 |>|> pe.net>:
 |>|>|Idézem/Quoting Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu>:
 |>|>|> Martin Lucina wrote in <20190326161158.dselagbgx7krlf5f@nodbug.lucina\
 |>|>|> .n\
 |>|>|> e\
 |>|>|> t>:
 |>|>|>|On Tuesday, 26.03.2019 at 17:01, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |>|>|>|> Hmmm.  Could you please run
 |>|>|>|>
 |>|>|>|>   $ make VERBOSE=y
 |>|>  ...
 |>|>|>| . ${awk} ... /usr/bin/awk
 |>|>  ...
 |>|>|>|FWIW mawk 1.3.3 seems to be installed as /usr/bin/awk on my Debian \
 |>|>|>|systems.
 |>|>  ...
 |>|>|> So looking at this it seems to be a bug in the Debian mawk you are
 |>|>|> using.  Or have i missed a glitch in the code above, hmmm.
 |>|>|
 |>|>|In Debian, there is another mawk.
 |>|>|To build s-nail issue apt-get install git build-essential original-awk
 |>|> 
 |>|> I am truly astonished.  I thought that the package build of Debian
 |>|> uses a plain default install, but now i see that Paride Legovini,
 |>|> the Debian maintainer, has added "gawk" to the "build depends".
 |>|> I did not know that, he did not say a word last time.  I think
 |>|> i will ask him once i am established on my new machine.  Also to
 |>|> report that i think that "metadata" seems to use reversed
 |>|> repository and repository-browse entries.
 |>|
 |>|Hello! Yes I added a build-dep on gawk because the build failed with
 |>|mawk. I didn't think it was a bug, I thought you just started using some
 |>|extension not supported by mawk, otherwise I would have told you.
 |>|
 |>|I'll remove the build-dep on gawk in the next upload and fix the Vcs
 |>|metadata.
 |> 
 |> Ok, great.  It was really only that i did not know about this
 |> peculiar and specific Debian/mawk story.  Character classes are
 |> really old, but you just need to know about it.
 |> 
 |> Now that you are here, Paride, do you have any plans for updating
 |> to v14.9.13, it fixes quite some bugs etc. etc.?  This would be
 |> very nice. 
 |
 |I certainly will. I didn't already do it as Debian is now frozen, so
 |it is 14.9.11-2 that will go in the next stable release. (Not to mention
 |that I've been changing job, so I had very little time lately.)

Very good to hear this.  Good luck.
Ciao,

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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