in_avail() bug not fixed in 3.0.3

[Joe Buck]

On Dec 14, 2001, "David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How come the bug was marked fixed, when it isn't fixed?

Alexandre Oliva writes:
> It may well have only been fixed in mainline, in case the fix was too
> involved for a minor release such as 3.0.3.  For example, it might
> require breaking binary compatibility with 3.0.x, which is a major NO
> for 3.0.3.

I'm sure that this is the case, but it does point out a problem: we
don't have a way of querying GNATS to find which bugs fall in this
category (fixed for 3.1 but not for 3.0.x).  For a given bug, one can
read the audit trail, but even then it might not be clear; I'm not
sure we're being consistent about updating GNATS when a bug fix is
back-ported, for example.