On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:16:45PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:10:22AM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > > I don't know at which version the change was introduced, and I just 
> > > wanted it to work with my system, which is at 4.99.30. Feel free to 
> > > change it to whatever is more appropriate.
> > 
> > Ummm, no, that's not how it works. The person who makes the change
> > needs to do it properly.
> 
> It was also commonly decided that backwards compatibility with HEAD is
> not that critical and it is often not possible to exactly pin-point the
> right version anyway.

No, it wasn't commonly decided to do any such thing, because that is
just being sloppy. Kernel version numbers are there for a reason,
and so NetBSD's own packaging system needs to get them right.

If you don't know how to pinpoint the correct version, please ask the
person who made the change.

Thanks,
Alistair