Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/databases/gnats
To: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 11/15/2004 13:05:53
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:02:54PM +1100, grant beattie wrote:
> indeed, you are correct - the CVE entry says "GNATS 4.0.0", which is
> unfortunately too narrow.
> 
> normally, we do not pull up major updates to the branch but this
> probably qualifies for an exception. is GNATS 4.0 backward compatible
> with 3.x, or is the update intrusive?

Any GNATS installation/upgrade is a somewhat manual process, but
version 4 is no worse than 3.x in this regard.


-- 
Soren