In <[🔎] 1303942683.14504.21.camel@eren-deb64>, Debiantr.WP wrote: >Can someone help me with patching the file given on Debian's bug site: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623012 > >I don't know what to do. Checked how to patch it on the internet, but I >think I am doing smt wrong. cd ~ && mkdir -p build && cd build && apt-get source obmenu && cd obmenu-1.0 && wget http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;filename=623012.diff;att=1;bug=623012 \ -O - | patch -p1 && dch -v 1.0-1+b1+patch-623012.22 \ 'Applied python2.5-removal patch from bug 623012 message 22.' && dpkg-buildpackage -tc -uc -us You should have a shiny new, properly versioned .deb that you can install using dpkg. (It is probably in the parent directory.) [The "wget ... | patch ..." line applies the patch.] If that works, you could even prepare an NMU fairly simply, by using (dch -e) to add the "Closes: 623012" and change the version to 1.0-1.1, then using (dch -r -D unstable) to "finalize" the changelog and (dpkg-buildpackage -tc) to build the files to be uploaded -- a signed changes file, source package, and binary package. ["dch" is in the devscripts package; "dpkg-buildpackage" is in the dpkg-dev package.] Even if you didn't want to do an NMU (or shouldn't because of policy), those files could be attached to the bug report for use by the maintainer and/or other users with the same problem.