[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#489832: octave3.0-info: octave info docs not easily accessible

[Drew Parsons]

Package: octave3.0-info
Version: 1:3.0.1-4
Severity: normal

This is really a reopening of bug #456636, which is archived.  Not
sure if it should really be filed against octave2.1-info.

Sorry for the nuisance, I thought we had fixed this bug, but I'm
experiencing it again.  I've moved to a new machine, upgraded it from
etch to testing to sid.  And once again, "info octave" is delivering the
man page instead of the info page.

Last time you determined the bug was in the octave2.1-info package, with
the fix marked in 1:2.1.73-14.  

So I purged octave3.0-info and installed octave2.1-info (1:2.1.73-19)
to make sure that part of the system was updated. Note that while
octave2.1-info is installed, the problem is still present with "info
octave" going to the man page.

I then removed octave2.1-info and installed octave3.0-info (1:3.0.1-4),
but the problem is still there.  Same if I purge octave2.1-info instead
of removing it.

Looks like something's still wrong after all. Was there with the fix
put into octave2.1-info? This will affect upgrades from etch once
lenny is released.

Sorry for the bad news!

Drew
	

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0-info depends on:
ii  emacs21 [info-browse 21.4a+1-5.4         The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs22 [info-browse 22.2+2-2            The GNU Emacs editor
ii  info [info-browser]  4.11.dfsg.1-4       Standalone GNU Info documentation 
ii  jed [info-browser]   1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-10 editor for programmers (textmode v
ii  jed-extra [info-brow 2.4.3-1             collection of useful Jed modes and

octave3.0-info recommends no packages.

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