El 17/4/25 a las 20:27, Russ Allbery escribió:
Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes:
I noticed that Fedora 42 was released and their docker images lack a
'awk' tool. Debian trixie images ship with 'mawk' pre-installed right
now. While I'm not convinced the removal game is necessarily a good
one, I can see that it does have some advantages. Is it possible to
drop 'mawk' from the set of default tools in trixie? If not, what are
the blockers? What is the method to find out what the blockers are?
awk is in the essential set in Debian, so this would be a very substantial
amount of work. See the Pre-Depends in base-files, which is there to make
some awk implementation essential while still allowing the user to switch
between implementations.
Indeed. As James Troup once said, we made perl to be part of the essential set,
and not doing the same with good old awk would be criminal.
Installed size of mawk is 263 MB which is really small for today's standards.
Thanks.
