Bug#361705: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#361705: octave2.1-info: wrong references in Variable index

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Apr-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| package octave2.1-info
| forwarded 361705 bug at octave.org
| tags 361705 upstream patch
| thanks
| 
| 
| The bug report below was filed against the Debian package octave2.1-info,
| version 2.1.72-10.  I confirm that the same problems exist for 2.1.73 and
| 2.9.5.  (For detailed information, see http://bugs.debian.org/361705.)
| 
| My comments:
| 
| * Francesco Potorti` <pot at fly.isti.cnr.it> [2006-04-08 13:40]:
| 
| > Package: octave2.1-info
| > Version: 1:2.1.72-10
| > Severity: normal
| > 
| > In "Variable index" there is a reference to "return", which is not a
| > variable.
| 
| I do not know if this is fixable.  The "return" keyword is defined with
| "@defvr {Keyword} return" in doc/interpreter/func.txi and will be indexed
| in the variable index in any case.

I changed the current CVS sources (2.9.x) to use deffn so it will
appear in the function index.  Maybe we should also have a keyword
index, but I think that would be much more work.

| > In "variable index", automatic_replot refers to "Summary of built-in
| > variables", which in turn refers to :Two-dimensional plotting", where
| > automatic_replot is not mentioned.
| 
| This is indeed annoying.  Here is my suggested patch to fix the problem:

OK, I checked in these changes, also to the 2.9.x CVS sources.

Thanks,

jwe