[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, 10:30 +0200 schrieb 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

We are currently mixing dh_installinfo with postinst and prerm scripts
This may be responsible for this bug.

	Thomas