[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#456636: Bug#456636: octave info docs not easily accessible

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> [2007-12-17 18:36]:

> 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).

I think I found where the problem comes from, at least partially.  Before
going further and uploading the fixed package, I would like to have some
confirmations from you:

1) Did you have the octave2.1-info package installed in the past?

2) Could you please run the following commands (as root) on your system and
   tell me what you see:

       apt-get remove octave2.1-info
       apt-get install octave2.1-info
       perl -pi -e 's/(--quiet --remove \$)g/${1}h/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/octave2.1-info.prerm
       apt-get remove octave2.1-info
       info octave

Thanks,       

-- 
Rafael