Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 01/04/2019:
> Hello Paride!
> 
> Paride Legovini wrote in <2fd8fca2-2372-e0fe-a91a-09dfcb354a56@ninthfloo\
> r.org>:
> 
> You were not whitelisted, what a shame.  Now fixed.
> 
>  |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 27/03/2019:
>  ..
>  |> SZÉPE Viktor wrote in <20190326180547.Horde._EbhpsqSnQMR0YPAmel-vmA@sze\
>  |> pe.net>:
>  |>|Idézem/Quoting Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]>:
>  |>|> Martin Lucina wrote in <[email protected]\
>  |>|> e\
>  |>|> t>:
>  |>|>|On Tuesday, 26.03.2019 at 17:01, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>  |>|>|> Hmmm.  Could you please run
>  |>|>|>
>  |>|>|>   $ make VERBOSE=y
>  |>  ...
>  |>|>| . ${awk} ... /usr/bin/awk
>  |>  ...
>  |>|>|FWIW mawk 1.3.3 seems to be installed as /usr/bin/awk on my Debian \
>  |>|>|systems.
>  |>  ...
>  |>|> So looking at this it seems to be a bug in the Debian mawk you are
>  |>|> using.  Or have i missed a glitch in the code above, hmmm.
>  |>|
>  |>|In Debian, there is another mawk.
>  |>|To build s-nail issue apt-get install git build-essential original-awk
>  |> 
>  |> I am truly astonished.  I thought that the package build of Debian
>  |> uses a plain default install, but now i see that Paride Legovini,
>  |> the Debian maintainer, has added "gawk" to the "build depends".
>  |> I did not know that, he did not say a word last time.  I think
>  |> i will ask him once i am established on my new machine.  Also to
>  |> report that i think that "metadata" seems to use reversed
>  |> repository and repository-browse entries.
>  |
>  |Hello! Yes I added a build-dep on gawk because the build failed with
>  |mawk. I didn't think it was a bug, I thought you just started using some
>  |extension not supported by mawk, otherwise I would have told you.
>  |
>  |I'll remove the build-dep on gawk in the next upload and fix the Vcs
>  |metadata.
> 
> Ok, great.  It was really only that i did not know about this
> peculiar and specific Debian/mawk story.  Character classes are
> really old, but you just need to know about it.
> 
> Now that you are here, Paride, do you have any plans for updating
> to v14.9.13, it fixes quite some bugs etc. etc.?  This would be
> very nice. 

I certainly will. I didn't already do it as Debian is now frozen, so
it is 14.9.11-2 that will go in the next stable release. (Not to mention
that I've been changing job, so I had very little time lately.)

Ciao!
Paride

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