[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#502295: Bug#502295: Bug#502295: octave-fixed: The info manual should go in the info dir

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> [2008-10-21 09:09]:

> >> then added this line to
> >> /usr/share/info/dir:
> >
> >Given that we only ship the texi files to comply with the license, I
> >don't intend to include the files into the texinfo system 
> 
> Why not?  The info directory is made just for that: having the manuals
> grouped together into a consistent framework.  That's the first place I
> look for documentation, and given that it is an Octave package, it seems
> natural.  Even if the original package does not contain a compiled info
> file, it is very easy to produce one and install it.  Why not?
> 
> >							   (and most
> >definitely not in the first level of texinfo: if we ever include them,
> >it should be beneath the Octave structure).
> 
> I added that line just below the OdePkg (octave-odepkg) one.  As far as
> I can tell, that is the right place, because there is no such thing as
> an Octave structure.  Am I missing anything?

This makes me wonder: woudln't you be willing to join the Debian Octave
Group and help us in developing the packages, Francesco?

-- 
Rafael