There is an updated pull request by mmnmnnmnmm against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/mmnmnnmnmm/void-packages nawk
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23621

nawk: update to 20200702
xlint says that the short_desc should not start with an article, but in this circumstance that would change the meaning of the sentence.

If you want me to change it I suggest something like
"Version of awk as described in The AWK Programming Language".

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23621.patch is attached