> I'd recommend you download the source (easy: apt-get source nginx), add the patch to quilt and then build it (preferably using pbuilder if you're building a binary package locally).
If you can fix the bug in packaging, why not submit the fix and make it available to all Ubuntu users? As you say, nginx is in universe. This means that it is community supported, and anybody can contribute the fix (in the form of a debdiff with the quilted patch, as you describe) and have it sponsored and the package updated.
If you can fix the bug in packaging, why not submit the fix and make it available to all Ubuntu users? As you say, nginx is in universe. This means that it is community supported, and anybody can contribute the fix (in the form of a debdiff with the quilted patch, as you describe) and have it sponsored and the package updated.