The following reply was made to PR pkg/23425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rob Quinn <rquinn@sec.sprint.net>
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
Cc: wiz@netbsd.org, pkg-manager@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/23425
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:49:09 -0500

 > (1) it already prints out a warning saying that it might not work and
 > then tries anyway.  case in point, my 2.99.14 lsof works fine on
 > 2.99.16.  i'll try it on 3.99.1 tomorrow.  :)
 > (2) if we make it refuse to work if the kernel version is different,
 > we eliminate a great many cases where it might work anyway.
 
  I don't want to force either to stop working, I would just like them to show
 up in "lintpkgsrc -i" as out of date.