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[Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas@xxxxxx>]

mawk in Ubuntu and Debian is 18 years, see LP bug #1332114
Many bugs of Mawk are fixed in a new upstream versions 1.3.4-2010nnnn-2015nnnn, but the Debian maintainer does not want to update for an obscure reason.
We need to push here: http://bugs.debian.org/554167

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #554167
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554167

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26603

Title:
  String indexes are inconsistent with other awks

Status in mawk package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The substr() function from within mawk does not function correctly. In particular, the 
  substr(s,i,n) form returns n-1 characters, instead of n as required. To demonstrate:

  % echo "1234" | mawk '{print substr($0,0,3)}'
  12

  It should display "123"; this can be confirmed by using gawk instead, or trying awk on 
  the *BSD platforms.

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