[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

Mike Miller mtmiller at debian.org
Tue Oct 7 13:48:23 UTC 2014


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:09:48 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> reason for this is that the octave-gui cannot handle compressed info files,
> please consider shipping them uncompressed in the package, thanks.

Thanks for your bug report. As you noted, this is due to compressed info
files not being handled by the GUI doc browser correctly. I don't know
that shipping uncompressed info is the right solution, since it is only
the experimental GUI that has a problem, other info readers handle them
correctly.

-- 
mike



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