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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2014-10-08 08:49]:
>
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 00:22:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>>
>> That said, I would follow Sébastien's suggestion and disable compression of 
>> info files for jessie.
>
> I'm probably a bit biased by seeing the 3.8 GUI as a best-effort 
> experimental feature, and that this will hopefully be fixed by 4.0. But 
> I agree this would also be fixed now by simply bypassing compression of 
> the info pages temporarily, which just opens a non-RC policy-compliance 
> bug.
>
> Sounds like you're both in favor, so fine with me.

I fixed it in commit ae7aec8.  We should upload version 3.8.2-3 soon to 
unstable.  I am feeling already a chilling breeze...

Rafael