Comment 4 for bug 384916

This is simply brilliant! It's clear that this bug is one of the most serious ones, but until now, I just didn't have the time to extensively study the whole MIME stuff. I didn't give the patch a try yet but I'll do that soon and I really look forward to seeing this working again! The patch will be part of LottaNZB 0.5.1 if all goes well.

Actually tackling a problem on your own and reading the docs is definitely the best way of learning how things work. Combining your knowledge and your skills with the ones of others in order to build something great really is the spirit of free software.

I guess debdiffs are mostly useful if you want to fix a bug in a Debian/Ubuntu package so that others can give the fix a try in an easy way. Since all users and not only Ubuntu users would profit from this particular bug fix, I'll make the changes directly in LottaNZB's source code.

In other words, if a problem affects all users, the problem should be reported upstream (here :-)). You could branch the code using "bzr lp:lottanzb/0.5" and make all the changes you need to fix the problem. After commiting it using "bzr commit -m '...'" you could create a simple patch using "bzr diff > my.patch". An even better way is to push your local branch (with the fix) to launchpad using "bzr push lp:~your_lp_username/lottanzb/your_fix_for_bug_xxxxxx". You can continue working on your fix and if you think it's ready, you can make a merge proposal.

Again: Thanks alot and congratulations!