--- mawk.old/debian/xcontrol Fri Aug 29 00:23:29 2008 +++ /opt/emdebian/trunk/m/mawk/trunk/mawk-1.3.3/debian/xcontrol Fri Aug 29 00:23:19 2008 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Source: mawk +Section: utils +Priority: required +Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar +Build-Depends-Tools: dpatch, bison, gcc (>= 3:3.3-1) [hppa] +Standards-Version: 3.8.0 + +Package: mawk +Architecture: any +Provides: awk +Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} +Description: a pattern scanning and text processing language + Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK + language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and + processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. Mawk + is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, + Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley + Publishing, 1988. (Hereafter referred to as the AWK book.) Mawk conforms + to the POSIX 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK language + which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, and mawk + provides a small number of extensions. + . + Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time + limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020. +