Package: mawk
Version: 1.3.3-11
Severity: important

The mawk program doesn't match the following (examples):

Quantities (ERE):
$ echo AAAA | mawk '/A{4}/ { print; }'
$

Character classes (BRE/ERE):
$ echo "     test" | mawk '/^[[:space:]]*test/ { print; }'
$

Probably other {B,E}RE stuff, too, I didn't check all.

Since regular expressions provide a main functionality of AWK, I
classified it as 'important'.

That may give hints to a problem with the used RE backend.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-486
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mawk depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

mawk recommends no packages.

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