Re: pkg/55203 (pkgsrc firefox-75.0 patch has suspicious chunk)

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The following reply was made to PR pkg/55203; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: coypu%sdf.org@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/55203 (pkgsrc firefox-75.0 patch has suspicious chunk)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:22:21 +0000

 I was also not super-happy with the patch I made :-)
 The original self-justification was "it's just NetBSD 8, and with some
 extra testing I can get rid of most of the patch and leave just the
 prefs.js change", but the ksem locking issue means it's best to wait for
 NetBSD 9.1 to be released for it to reach release users.
 
 I am not sure if javascript has enough information about kernel versions
 to make a runtime check (probably not for privacy reasons).