[Bug 1332114] [NEW] Please update mawk to latest upstream release - mawk in Ubuntu is 15 years old and very buggy :(

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Public bug reported:

mawk in Ubuntu is 15 years old and very buggy (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=mawk and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mawk , also bugs in other
products, like bug #1331381) :(

Almost all bugs, reported in Ubuntu and Debian are fixed in 1.3.4-nnnn
upstream releases, see http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html

Please update mawk to latest upstream release - all the other major
distributions (Fedora/Redhat, Suse, even FreeBSD) have switched to mawk
1.3.4-2013nnnn. Five years since the bug  asking to upload new mawk in
Debian didn't change anything, so, I'm reporting bug in Ubuntu -
sticking to 1.3.3 is now causing headeach to lots of people rather than
saving from regressions :(

Please, update mawk package in Ubuntu 14.10.

** Affects: mawk (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: mawk (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

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  Please update mawk to latest upstream release - mawk in Ubuntu is 15
  years old and very buggy :(

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