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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 07 octobre 2014 à 09:48 -0400, Mike Miller a écrit :
> 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.

I am tempted to disable compression of info files, since it is an easy
fix for the problem with the GUI, and the cost in terms of additional
space is limited (something like 2MB).

At any rate, we need to reach a decision soon, since the jessie freeze
is very close. What do you think?

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