Re: How do you patch a debian package?

[Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 09:49:20AM -0600, IBMackey wrote:
> 
> I downloaded the debian package for message handler email system. Turns
> out it doesn't view the digest list formats correctly. On checking the
> net, I found under mh's homepage, there's a patch. I'm a newbie and have
> very little C expertise, how do I patch the debian package ?
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.

File a bugreport against that particular package describing your
problems and attaching the patch.  The maintainer should then
try to include it in further releases.

How to report a bug is shown here
  <URL:http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html>

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
    / Martin Schulze  *  joey@infodrom.north.de  *  26129 Oldenburg /
   / To-Zeilen in öffentlichen Nachrichten ist FidoNet-Technologie /
  / <gröhl>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^ /
 / ... endlich 'mal wieder ein echt gelungener Witz!!!           /
/                                              -- Rainer Scholz /


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .