Because mawk is not POSIX compliant, cannot be updated safely without great risk of breaking things.
** Changed in: mawk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mawk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074404 Title: Segfault with mawk Status in mawk package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mawk package in Debian: New Bug description: release: ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS mawk version: 1.3.3-17 Got a segfault with: echo "x" | awk "/x/ { print \"(`cat test`)\"; next; } { print; }" - 'test' file attached removing a few chars from the test files resolves the issue To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk/+bug/1074404/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp