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

[Thomas Weber]

Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 10:02 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-07-08 09:31]:
> 
> > Well, I just realized I have the problem on my work system:
> > 
> > $ info -w octave
> > *manpages*
> > 
> > but
> > $ info -f /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz
> > 
> > works as expected, so the file is there.
> > 
> > If anyone has a pointer at hand as to when "info" uses the manpages, I
> > would appreciate that.
> 
> Very strange. In my sid chroot I cannot reproduce this.  Could you please
> try the following:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get remove octave2.1-info octave3.0-info
> $ info -w octave
> *manpages*
> $ sudo apt-get install octave3.0-info
> $ info -w octave
> /usr/share/info/octave3.0.info.gz

Okay, I found the problem:

	/usr/share/info/dir
contains wrong information (I have several entries for 2.1 in there).
Removing these fixes the problem.

	Thomas