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

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:42 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> [2007-12-17 18:36]:
> > 
> > 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?

Yep :)  Currently marked as "pn" (purged) by dpkg -l.


> 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

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package octave2.1-info is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.


>        apt-get install octave2.1-info

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  octave2.1-info
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 310kB of archives.
After unpacking 373kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://debian.anu.edu.au unstable/main octave2.1-info 1:2.1.73-13
[310kB]
Fetched 310kB in 0s (4959kB/s)  
Selecting previously deselected package octave2.1-info.
(Reading database ... 275164 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking octave2.1-info (from .../octave2.1-info_1%
3a2.1.73-13_all.deb) ...
Setting up octave2.1-info (1:2.1.73-13) ...


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

(silently succcessful)

>        apt-get remove octave2.1-info

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  octave2.1-info
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 373kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 275173 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing octave2.1-info ...


>        info octave

Success!

Looks like you've figured it out :)

Thanks,
Drew