* Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> [250421 14:51]:
El 21/4/25 a las 14:02, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió:
I would suggest you hit up some of the current maintainers of Essential: yes
packages, and leave the naysayers on d-devel to themselves.
Note that there might be some overlap in those two sets of people.
The set of currently essential packages, and the fact that awk is among them
in particular, reflects a consensus which may be seen as nearly "foundational".
Consensus is not sacred and everything is open to discussion, but extraordinary
breakages of consensus (like this one) should require extraordinary benefits,
and in this case we are talking about 263KB in a container image several
orders of magnitude bigger.
I understood Josh's mail to include more than just awk, and that awk
should probably not be the first package on the list to tackle.
It will be a long journey anyway.
[..]
Chris
