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[Robie Basak <1332114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marking Importance: Wishlist based on the corresponding Debian bug. If
there are specific issues causing real problems for users, then please
use separate bugs to help us track the actual issues and assess their
importance individually and objectively. "It's buggy" isn't particularly
helpful on its own.

** Tags added: upgrade-software-version

** Changed in: mawk (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: mawk (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Summary changed:

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

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Title:
  Please update mawk to latest upstream release

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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