Re: What to do with a patch for a stable package?
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Juergen Nagler wrote:
> Hi Debian community,
>
> I'm very new to Debian but not to Linux. I realy appreciate the .deb
> format. But now I have a problem:
>
> I installed the squid.deb package out of the stable packages. Now there
> was a log messages repeated 800 thousand times and wasted 74 MB: not so
> good on my 200 MB partition. One of the squid team wrote a patch (3
> lines code) which I have here. What should I do?
>
> 1. Send the patch to the maintainer of squid.deb, hoping he will include
> it and store the new deb package on the web/ftp-server. Meanwhile
> installing the patch myself by installing the package sources, inserting
> the patch and compiling it.
>
> 2. Wrote to some debug list?
>
> 3. Or should I do everything local (patching source and compile) because
> nobody will care?
>
> Have I forgotten anything? Somebody else to report to?
>
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> Juergen Nagler
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