Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> The dpkg upgrade log that Jörg showed clearly indicates that this is not the
> case; mawk was removed, other packages were installed, and then gawk was
> installed.
> 
> If the use of awk in the x11-common preinst had actually been reached, it
> would've caused the package to fail to unpack.
> 
In case you missed my other mail in this thread, I think this is the
same issue I reported in #314571.

Regards,

-Roberto

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