Greetings: In spite of my hardware woes, I got new gawk and mawk packages uploaded. Sorry, about the delay. I put them in the /home/Debian/ftp/debian/project/experimental directory on master --- is that right? Neither package is essential. Both provide an 'awk' package. Mawk is section base, priority important. I didn't include section or priority information on gawk since I'm not sure of its final resting place. The base package maintainer should make 'base' depend on the virtual package 'awk'. Thus users can use mawk, gawk, or both. I recommend mawk because it is fast and small (See Arnold Robbins comments in the August 1996 issue of Linux Journal).
Previously, I have tested mawk on the base disks and had no trouble. But I recommend that others try this --- just to make sure. Any suggestions on what we should do with the extra 300K on the base disks? Here are the .changes files: Date: 08 Aug 96 05:13 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: mawk Version: 1.2.2-2 Binary: mawk Architecture: i386 source Description: mawk: a pattern scanning and text processing language Changes: no changes info provided Files: 84a22ce5d166fe34ad19da5e216cd547 193174 base - mawk_1.2.2-2.tar.gz 60a840c5f9e07d66fc3417d23aea2e97 3134 base - mawk_1.2.2-2.diff.gz df7b4a51be039d654b9aaa5143394721 64610 base important mawk_1.2.2-2_i386.deb Date: 08 Aug 96 04:53 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gawk Version: 3.0.0-3 Binary: gawk Architecture: i386 source Description: gawk: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language Changes: no changes info provided Files: 1c7d9ce4ded412b8c6c3d08927065459 663678 - gawk_3.0.0-3.tar.gz fb2fb0b4900fb201cae28ae4f89defb7 3835 - gawk_3.0.0-3.diff.gz ce0bf9f2eab0d0bcd66c3144ce38c5e3 468 - gawk_3.0.0-3.changes 85a4aaa04c5cad4d2d9767cda0ac211f 336184 misc extra gawk_3.0.0-3_i386.deb -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Design Science Revolutionary "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Explorer in Universe
