Hi Robie,
In terms of gawk being included by default on certain Ubuntu installs, this
is a bug to be aware of that can impact upgrades:
https://bugs.debian.org/932752
I think I've looked at the byobu gawk dependency at least once before and
unfortunately the awk usage in /usr/bin/byobu-select-
[also CCing ubuntu-server@ as server people might also want this as a
PSA]
I just noticed something. mawk is Required, so provides the usual
implementation of awk on Ubuntu. However, byobu depends on gawk, and
byobu is seeded on server (and cloud images). gawk also provides the awk
update-alternat
