Gawk 5.0.1

Summary

New upstream major version of gawk has been released (4.2.1 -> 5.0.X). Among many changes, the version 5 introduced a namespaces, which may possible break some of the existing scripts.

Owner

Name: Jakub Martisko
Email: jamartis@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 31
Last updated: 2019-06-26
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The new version of gawk has been released. The new version fixes a number of bugs, some of which were quite significant. Other notable changes include:

The regex routines have been replaced with those from GNULIB
Comment handling in the pretty-printer has been reworked almost completely from scratch. As a result, comments in many corner cases that were previously lost are now included in the formatted output.
Namespaces have been added.
Gawk now uses the locale settings for ignoring case in single byte locales, instead of hardwiring in Latin-1.

~~The introduction of namespaces may break some scripts written for gawk 4.2.1 due to different variable names.~~ (This is considered to be a bug by the upstream and patch is being prepared)

Benefit to Fedora

See above, the main benefit are several bug fixes.

Scope

Proposal owners: Update the source archive of the gawk, drop no longer needed patches.

Other developers: Some modifications to existing gawk scripts may be needed. ~~Especially those, using the inplace gawk extension, where some of the variables have been renamed.~~ (This is considered to be a bug by the upstream and patch is being prepared)

Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)

Policies and guidelines: N/A

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

see above

How To Test

N/A

User Experience

Dependencies

dnf repoquery -q  --releasever=rawhide --disablerepo='*' --qf='%{name}' --enablerepo=fedora-source --enablerepo=updates-source --enablerepo=updates-testing-source --archlist=src --whatrequires 'gawk'

Judy
Macaulay2
acl
apt
autoconf213
avr-binutils
avr-gcc
clucene
cone
crack
dictd
eterm
geomview
git
glibc
gnome-libs
gnome-menus
gpgme
gpm
gscan2pdf
gyachi
japanese-bitmap-fonts
kde-filesystem
kdelibs3
kernel
kernel-tools
krb5
lapack
libAfterImage
libassuan
libecpg
libgcrypt
libgpg-error
libguestfs
libksba
libpaper
libphidget
libpq
libsvm
libtpms
libvirt
linuxdoc-tools
lm_sensors
lxcfs
maildrop
mingw-clucene
nco
netcdf
nss
ocaml
ocaml-calendar
ocaml-csv
ocaml-curl
ocaml-curses
ocaml-expat
ocaml-extlib
ocaml-findlib
ocaml-libvirt
ocaml-pcre
ocaml-ssl
ocaml-xml-light
paperkey
pcb
postgresql
powermanga
quilt
rbldnsd
rpm
rss-glx
samba
selinux-policy
stow
surfraw
swig
systemd
topgit
tzdata
virt-top
xblast
xdg-utils
xfsdump
xschem
xscreensaver
yara
zsh

dnf repoquery -q  --releasever=rawhide --disablerepo='*' --qf='%{name}' --enablerepo=fedora --enablerepo=updates --enablerepo=updates-testing --whatrequires 'gawk'

R-core
akmods
am-utils
authselect-libs
autoconf213
autofs
backupninja
calamares
centerim
ceph-selinux
check-checkmk
checksec
cloud-utils
cloud-utils-growpart
condor-vm-gahp
copr-backend
coreos-installer
ctdb
dhcp-client
dkms
docbook-utils
dracut-kiwi-oem-dump
e2fsprogs-devel
esh
execstack
flamegraph-stackcollapse
flamegraph-stackcollapse-perf
gawk-abort
gawk-devel
gawk-doc
gawk-errno
gawk-json
gawk-lmdb
gawk-nl_langinfo
gawk-pgsql
gawk-redis
gawk-select
gawk-xml
gawkextlib
geeqie
git-secret
glimmer
groff
gt5
gtkpod
guilt
hylafax+
initscripts
krb5-libs
latex2rtf
lbdb
lde
libguestfs
libsmi
linuxconsoletools
linuxdoc-tools
lorax
ltunify
m17n-db
neofetch
netconsole-service
netdump-server
network-scripts
nfs-utils
ocaml
opari2
pal
pcp
phpPgAdmin
pkgdiff
policycoreutils
prettyping
quilt
rarian
readonly-root
rear
redhat-lsb-core
redis
resource-agents
rf
rpm-build
rpmdevtools
rust-packaging
screenie
selinux-policy
seqan
seqan2-apps
sofia-sip-devel
spectre-meltdown-checker
surfraw
syslog-ng
systemtap-testsuite
testssl
topgit
translate-shell
tuned
tw
twa
txt2man
unity-gtk-module-common
virt-p2v-maker
virt-v2v
vzctl-core
xfce4-dev-tools
xschem
ypserv
zram

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Reverting to gawk 4.2.1 if significant issues are discovered
Contingency deadline: Beta freeze (?)
Blocks release? No
Blocks product? no

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