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

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, den 11.07.2008, 12:04 +1000 schrieb Drew Parsons:
> So there it is, the bug is in etch octave2.9-info (2.9.9-8etch1).
> Reassigning accordingly.   I guess some logic should be added to lenny's
> octave2.9-info dummy package to clear out any potential leftover
> entries.  

Rafael, can you take this? I'll try to come up with something, but I'm
not sure I'll arrive at it before the freeze.

> That is, use the install-info code related to "remove" in the
> packages script (but apply the install-info remove during package
> install, not removal!).
> 
> Drew
> 
> p.s. it's curious in this case that Thomas saw remnant 2.1 entries
> in /usr/share/info/dir, not 2.9.  Thomas, does that mean you had never
> installed octave2.1-info 1:2.1.73-14 or later?

Quite possible. We keep the 2.1 series in maintainance mode for quite
some time. While I have 2.1 installed, the 2.1 info package is probably
not installed in such a late version.

Even then, I use it from within Octave and usually don't bother if the
correct page doesn't come up: I then search within the info
documentation. 


	Thomas