The following reply was made to PR pkg/34786; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34786: [patch] python 2.4 plist incorrect on FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:46:24 +0200

 > http://distfiles.scode.org/bulk-build/reports/20061004.2238/lang/python24/.
 >broken.html
 
 [snip]
 
 > This patch:
 >
 >    http://distfiles.scode.org/pkgsrc/py24-so.diff
 
 I was informed of the history of the naming of shared libraries, so here is a 
 patch that does the reverse - remove the special casing of FreeBSD, resulting 
 in the filename "libpython2.4.so.1.0" on FreeBSD aswell:
 
    http://distfiles.scode.org/pkgsrc/py24-so-2.diff
 
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