[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#489832: octave3.0-info: octave info docs not easily accessible

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> [2008-07-09 11:13]:

> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:30 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, I found the problem:
> > 
> > 	/usr/share/info/dir
> > contains wrong information (I have several entries for 2.1 in there).
> > Removing these fixes the problem.
> > 
> 
> In my (current) case, /usr/share/info/dir contains references to
> octave2.9, but octave2.1 is not mentioned.
> 
> Like you, deleting these octave2.9 entries by hand restores the "info
> octave" functionality (goes to the octave3.0 info).

I am still confused and cannot reproduce the bug here.  When I purge and
reinstall the octave*-info, everything works fine for me.  Why not for you? 

-- 
Rafael