reassign 489832 octave2.9-info found 489832 2.9.9-8etch1 retitle 489832 octave2.9-info leaves entries in /usr/share/info/dir thanks
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:53 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-09 11:13]: > > > > > In my (current) case, /usr/share/info/dir contains references to > > octave2.9, but octave2.1 is not mentioned. > > > 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? > My guess is that the bug I got this time was due to octave2.9-info being previously installed. At the point where we went over the bug before, you found it was due to a bug in octave2.1-info (something related to the use of install-info I believe), and you fixed it in octave2.1-info. I suspect that when you made that octave2.1-info fix, the new version had already reached octave3.0-info. That is octave2.9-info was already deprecated. So what I think might be going on is that there was a bug in an earlier version of octave2.9-info, same as the bug in octave2.1-info. I posit that the bug was cleared in octave3.0-info, and we know it was fixed in octave2.1-info 1:2.1.73-14. That leaves a grey area due to the bug appearing once in octave2.9-info. If that's the case then there should be no problem upgrading from etch octave2.1 to lenny octave3.0. And we don't have to worry about octave2.9-info in lenny, since its now a dummy package which loads octave3.0-info. That leaves octave2.9-info in etch (2.9.9-8etch1). Indeed aftering installing octave2.9-info 2.9.9-8etch1 and then removing, the octave (2.9) entries are still present in /usr/share/info/dir, triggering the info-manpage bug. So there it is, the bug is in etch octave2.9-info (2.9.9-8etch1). Reassigning accordingly. I guess some logic should be added to lenny's octave2.9-info dummy package to clear out any potential leftover entries. That is, use the install-info code related to "remove" in the packages script (but apply the install-info remove during package install, not removal!). Drew p.s. it's curious in this case that Thomas saw remnant 2.1 entries in /usr/share/info/dir, not 2.9. Thomas, does that mean you had never installed octave2.1-info 1:2.1.73-14 or later? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
