Juergen Nagler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
Use the package bug and the command bug. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 "Das ist halt der Unterschied: Unix ist ein Betriebssystem mit Tradition, die anderen sind einfach von sich aus unlogisch." -- Anselm Lingnau in de.comp.os.unix.discussion