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[Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas@xxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- Please update mawk to latest upstream release
+ Please update mawk to latest upstream release - mawk in Ubuntu is 16 years old!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1332114

Title:
  Please update mawk to latest upstream release - mawk in Ubuntu is 16
  years old!

Status in mawk package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in mawk package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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