reopen 339835 reassign 339835 original-awk retitle 339835 configuring alternatives to use original-awk loses nawk thanks
Brian M. Carlson wrote: > I believe the problem in question is the fact that nawk is a slave to > awk (try update-alternatives --display awk). If this is a bug in > update-alternatives, please feel free to reassign. I belive that this is a bug in original-awk, since the "awk" alternative includes nawk, and original-awk doesn't include it. original-awk could probably avoid this problem by changing its update-alternatives call to register /usr/bin/mawk as providing the nawk alternative (mawk is required, so it will always be installed). Alternatively, this could be considered a bug in gawk and mawk for registering nawk as a slave link when not all awks can provide it. Going with that line of reasoning, nawk should be managed via a separate alternative. It seems unreasonable for every package that uses nawk to conflict with original-awk because of this problem. -- see shy jo
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