Re: Critical gawk -M bug still in Debian 11

[arnold]

alexandre.ferrieux@orange.com wrote:

> On 14/02/2024 12:43, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > 
> > Interestingly, when I recompiile 5.1.0 from the tarball, I get the bad
> > results. I don't know why.

Somehow, my copy of gawk-5.1.0 was overwritten by gawk 5.3.0. I've remedied 
that.

> > My "release notes" as such are in the NEWS file. Looking at it now, there is
> > nothing to call attention to the particular MPFR issue.  I tend to focus
> > on changes in behavior, and not on the bugs fixed.
>
> Okay. I've just emailed the Debian maintainer, Adrian Bunk. I do not know how 
> hard the backport would be (maybe some dependencies have issues); will report 
> here about his response.

OK, good luck.

Thanks,

Arnold