According to the PKGBUILD, nothing is being stripped. The Arch Linux package is just an archive of files produced by a script provided by upstream.⁽¹⁾ If the file isn’t present, it’s because gawk is not installing it in the first place.Just a question of why the README is stripped from the gawk package. It seems that should be placed in /usr/share/doc/gawk, but that directory doesn't even exist. It holds the developer information and instead of having that information as part of the package, I ended up stumbling around gnu.org to find it (which sent me to the savannah.git... source for it) Seems like a basic README should be in ../doc/pkgname for all packages.
If anything is missing, consider filing a bug report to gawk developers at <bug-gawk@xxxxxxx>.
Cheers, mpan ____⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/5b7e021f9e8bc39cf7fb668b946f0172334ab8c3/trunk/PKGBUILD#L32
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