On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 30 May 2005 at 15:02, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> | On 5/30/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > reopen 307683
> | > tags 307683 -sarge
> | > severity 307683 serious
> | > thanks
> | >
> | > On i386, both the package in unstable and the package in unstable fail
> | > if mawk is not installed.
> | >
> | > If you use mawk, you have to add a build dependency.
> |
> | It seems to me that the proper place to fix this is (still) in
> | r-base-dev, since it's what's choosing mawk or gawk (and I'd have to
>
> Don't think so. Mawk is priority required. It can be assumed to be present.
>...
mawk is neither essential nor build-essential.
The virtual "awk" package is indirectly essential (since base-files
depends on it), but that only guarantees that at least one of the three
awk implementations present in Debian is available.
> Dirk
cu
Adrian
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