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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
