Bug#34652: PROPOSAL] Policy is not clear about nawk.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Edward Betts wrote:

> On policy, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> > Among other things: Old awk is not guaranteed to have user-defined
> > functions (if I'm not mistaken).
> > 
> > However, I have yet to see an awk packaged for Debian
> > which is not a new awk.
> 
> original-awk ?

You are missing the point.

original-awk IS a new awk: It supports functions.

The fact that it is available under /usr/bin/awk does not make it an
old awk.

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