[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#494550: mc: vfs script depend on mawk, but mc doesn't even recommend it

[Jiří Paleček]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-2+b1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I get errors like "mawk not found" from mc vfs scripts (eg. when opening a  
rar archive in mc). Indeed:

jirka at debian:~$ fgrep mawk /usr/share/mc/extfs/*
/usr/share/mc/extfs/audio:        RESPONSE=`wget -q -T $CDDB_TIMEOUT -O -  
"$CDDB_SERVER/~cddb/cddb.cgi?cmd=cddb+query+$DISCID&$CDDB_HANDSHAKE" | tee  
"$3" | mawk '/^200/ { print $2,$3; }'`
/usr/share/mc/extfs/hp48:AWK=mawk
/usr/share/mc/extfs/iso9660:$ISOINFO -l -i "$1" | mawk '
/usr/share/mc/extfs/lslR:AWK=mawk
/usr/share/mc/extfs/ualz:       $UNALZ -l "$1" | mawk -v uid=`id -nu` -v  
gid=`id -ng` '
/usr/share/mc/extfs/uarj: $ARJ v "$1" | mawk -v uuid=${UID-0} '
/usr/share/mc/extfs/uha:    $HA lf "$1" 2>/dev/null | mawk -v uid=${UID-0}  
'
/usr/share/mc/extfs/ulha:AWK=mawk
/usr/share/mc/extfs/urar:     $UNRAR v -c- "$1" | mawk -v uid=`id -u` -v  
gid=`id -g` '
/usr/share/mc/extfs/uzoo:    $ZOO lq "$ARCHIVE" | mawk -v uid=${UID-0} '

I think that if the scripts depend specifically on mawk, mc should at leas  
recommend it. Even better, if this dependency is not crucial (ie. the  
scripts work with gawk, too), they should be changed not to require mawk.

Regards
  Jiri Palecek

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3-test (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL  
set to cs_CZ)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-3      GNU C Library: Shared  
libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.1-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-2   General Purpose Mouse -  
shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.1.3-2    The S-Lang programming  
library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                          <none>      (no description available)
ii  bzip2                        1.0.5-0.1   high-quality block-sorting  
file co
pn  dbview                       <none>      (no description available)
ii  file                         4.21-1      Determines file type using  
"magic"
ii  links                        2.1pre37-1  Web browser running in text  
mode
ii  lynx-cur [lynx]              2.8.7dev9-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with  
NLS sup
ii  mime-support                 3.39-1      MIME files 'mime.types' &  
'mailcap
ii  perl                         5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical  
Extraction
ii  unzip                        5.52-9      De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xpdf                         3.02-1.3    Portable Document Format  
(PDF) sui
ii  zip                          2.32-1      Archiver for .zip files

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