Bug#361705: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#361705: octave2.1-info: wrong
references in Variable index
John W. Eaton
jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Fri Apr 14 16:54:30 UTC 2006
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
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