[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#543914: Bug#543914: octave3.2: octave ought use infobrowser on debian, not /usr/bin/info

[Thomas Weber]

Hi Nick,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:09:49AM -0400, Nick Black wrote:
> Package: octave3.2
> Version: 3.2.0-2+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Octave ought be using infobrowser from Debian's alternatives system as
> opposed to a direct call to /usr/bin/info. I don't have info(1)
> installed (I use pinfo(1) instead), and get the following error:
> 
> octave:1> doc
> sh: info: command not found
> warning: unable to find info program `info'
> octave:2> 

Switching to infobrowser is not possible. Octave uses some switches
specific to info (and maybe other info browsers):

octave:1> info_program("/usr/bin/pinfo")
octave:2> doc root
Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.9
/usr/bin/pinfo: unrecognized option '--directory'
/usr/bin/pinfo: unrecognized option '--index-search'
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So, I'll drop the virtual package infobrowser from the dependencies.

	Thomas