[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#456636: octave info docs not easily accessible
Drew Parsons
dparsons at debian.org
Mon Dec 17 07:36:16 UTC 2007
Package: octave2.9-info
Version: 1:2.9.19-1
Severity: normal
The octave info docs are not accessible via "info octave".
"info octave2.9" does work.
I can see in octave2.9-info.postinst that update-alternatives is
supposed to create an alternatives symlink for
/usr/share/info/octave.info.gz. Furthermore I can see that the
symlinks have notionally been created: /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz
points to /etc/alternatives/octave.info.gz, which points to
/usr/share/info/octave2.9.info.gz.
Finally, accessing the symlink directly,
"info /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz"
does work.
But the simple and "normal" usage, "info octave", fails (shows the
octave(1) man page instead of the info pages).
Thanks, Drew.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages octave2.9-info depends on:
ii emacs [info-browser] 22.1+1-2.3 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii emacs21 [info-browser 21.4a+1-5.3 The GNU Emacs editor
ii emacs22 [info-browser 22.1+1-2.3 The GNU Emacs editor
ii info [info-browser] 4.11.dfsg.1-2 Standalone GNU Info documentation
ii jed [info-browser] 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-9 editor for programmers (textmode v
ii xjed [info-browser] 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-9 editor for programmers (x11 versio
octave2.9-info recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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