[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#816534: octave: Documentation on numerical integration missing in GUI

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:34:26 -0800, Mike Miller wrote:
> I get the same thing for chapters 23 "Numerical Integration" through 26
> "Statistics".
> 
> It is something in the info file itself, but I don't know what.

This issue is caused by a Debian packaging build step where the info
files are post-processed to point to renamed image files [1]. If I undo
that operation, the GUI documentation browser displays the affected help
sections properly.

I think this is because info files contain byte offset pointers to
chapters and sections, and this manipulation breaks these offsets. For
some reason the GNU info browser is still able to navigate the files,
but the Qt info browser embedded in Octave is not.

[1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave.git/commit/?id=f9f632a27f01c08646e7055b34ae784843ea9cb5

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mike