[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#400246: octave2.9-headers: /usr/include/octave alternative symlink seems wrong

[Thomas E. Vaughan]

Package: octave2.9-headers
Version: 2.9.9-6
Severity: normal


Header files on my system are under
'/usr/include/octave/octave'.

So right now,

'/usr/include/octave' -> '/usr/include/octave-2.9.9'.

But shouldn't the header files be accessible directly under
'/usr/include/octave'?

That is, shouldn't the alternative system be configured so
that

'/usr/include/octave' -> '/usr/include/octave-2.9.9/octave'?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages octave2.9-headers depends on:
ii  fftw3-dev                3.1.2-1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  g++                      4:4.1.1-13      The GNU C++ compiler
ii  gfortran                 4:4.1.1-13      The GNU Fortran 95 compiler
ii  lapack3-dev              3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libhdf5-serial-dev       1.6.5-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5-dev          5.5-5           Developer's libraries and docs for
ii  libreadline5-dev         5.2-1           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  octave2.9                2.9.9-6         GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3-dev             1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3

octave2.9-headers recommends no packages.

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