Dear mentors and Steve, I am looking for some advice concerning the new version 1.3.3-20090920-0.1 of the package "mawk".
It builds these binary packages: mawk - a pattern scanning and text processing language The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 38353, 65617, 100808, 127293, 135614, 173664, 189078, 244962, 303825, 339799, 355442, 355966, 485898, 496980, 554167 The previous version used dpatch and had a very old debian/rules file that did not run the test suite, handle DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, or cross-compile. debian/rules has been rewritten completely (the upstream makefile cannot handle cross-compilation yet, though). All previous patches were applied upstream, so I took the opportunity to switch to source format 3.0 (quilt). So this is not really the traditional sort of minimal non-maintainer upload --- it is superficially more like a QA upload. I am wondering what to do next: should I pursue a 14-day delayed NMU? Do nothing and hope some of my changes are picked up? The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mawk - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mawk/mawk_1.3.3-20090920-0.1.dsc My motivation was that the Linux kernel source started requiring an awk that can understand [[:lower:]]. I imagine others will start running into the same thing sooner or later: mawk 1.3.3 does not support POSIX regular expressions very well, making it a poor default awk. The updated version is far better in that respect. So I would be glad if someone looked over this package for me. Kind regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
