On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 08:09:38AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >... > It leads us to analyzing the effort and impact. Being in the essential > set means that dependencies are not spelled out. So the first step is > locating those dependencies. As we will likely not be able to audit > Debian's source code for awk uses in a reasonable amount of time, > empirical methods are likely needed. > * Rebuild the archive with awk dropped and see what fails > * Consider using reproducible builds to additionally see what packages > change as a result of dropping awk (for those that happen to be > reproducible) >...
Tools like awk/sed/perl would have to stay part of the build essential set if they get dropped from the essential set. Example: /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4:AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_AWK])dnl > Helmut cu Adrian
