The following reply was made to PR pkg/37100; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: xtraeme@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: PR/37100 CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:49:22 +0300

 >  Ignore post-hyphen parts of the Linux kernel version similiar to
 >  DragonFly and FreeBSD. It seems like Linux people love those...
 
 Post-hyphen part is a patch level in Debian based distributions, just
 like nb<X> in pkgsrc. AFAIR rpm based distros do the same.
 
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 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.