Subject: New gawk and mawk packages uploaded, finally

From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:37:14 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings:

In spite of my hardware woes, I got new gawk and mawk
packages uploaded. Sorry, about the delay. I put them in the
/home/Debian/ftp/debian/project/experimental directory on master --- is
that right? Neither package is essential. Both provide an 'awk' package.
Mawk is section base, priority important. I didn't include section or
priority information on gawk since I'm not sure of its final resting
place.  The base package maintainer should make 'base' depend on the
virtual package 'awk'.  Thus users can use mawk, gawk, or both.  I
recommend mawk because it is fast and small (See Arnold Robbins
comments in the August 1996 issue of Linux Journal).

Previously, I have tested mawk on the base disks and had no trouble.
But I recommend that others try this --- just to make sure.  Any
suggestions on what we should do with the extra 300K on the base
disks?

Here are the .changes files:

Date: 08 Aug 96 05:13 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Source: mawk
Version: 1.2.2-2
Binary:  mawk
Architecture:  i386 source
Description: 
 mawk: a pattern scanning and text processing language
Changes: no changes info provided
Files:
 84a22ce5d166fe34ad19da5e216cd547  193174  base  -  mawk_1.2.2-2.tar.gz
 60a840c5f9e07d66fc3417d23aea2e97  3134  base  -  mawk_1.2.2-2.diff.gz
 df7b4a51be039d654b9aaa5143394721  64610  base  important  mawk_1.2.2-2_i386.deb

Date: 08 Aug 96 04:53 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Source: gawk
Version: 3.0.0-3
Binary:  gawk
Architecture:  i386 source
Description: 
 gawk: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
Changes: no changes info provided
Files:
 1c7d9ce4ded412b8c6c3d08927065459  663678  -   gawk_3.0.0-3.tar.gz
 fb2fb0b4900fb201cae28ae4f89defb7  3835  -   gawk_3.0.0-3.diff.gz
 ce0bf9f2eab0d0bcd66c3144ce38c5e3  468  -   gawk_3.0.0-3.changes
 85a4aaa04c5cad4d2d9767cda0ac211f  336184  misc  extra  gawk_3.0.0-3_i386.deb

-- 
Christopher J. Fearnley            |    Linux/Internet Consulting
[email-masked]                     |    UNIX SIG Leader at PACS
http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf         |    (Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf    |    Design Science Revolutionary
"Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller |    Explorer in Universe

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From: Craig Sanders <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:58:39 +1000 (EST)

> suggestions on what we should do with the extra 300K on the base

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Craig