Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 09:03:45 AM Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 18:36:29 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Great, does that mean I don't need to investigate 3.8.2 build fixes > > anymore? I am on a conference and low on time, so I couldn't > > do more testing and fixing for th

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 18:36:29 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Great, does that mean I don't need to investigate 3.8.2 build fixes > anymore? I am on a conference and low on time, so I couldn't > do more testing and fixing for the 3.8.2 version. Yes, I think the patch I submitted should be suff

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-08 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Mike, On Wed, 08 Jul 2015, Mike Miller wrote: > Much thanks Norbert for investigating and finding the necessary changes. > I've confirmed that these changes are necessary for building upstream > source also. I'll take care of making sure these are addressed upstream. Thanks, that is good to he

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 20:19:32 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On July 6, 2015 8:08:31 PM EDT, Norbert Preining wrote: > >On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Thanks. Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as > >well? The > >> code you fixed in escape-backslash-for-

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On July 6, 2015 8:08:31 PM EDT, Norbert Preining wrote: >On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Thanks. Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as >well? The >> code you fixed in escape-backslash-for-texinfo-in-source isn't in >3.8.2, but it >> appears to have similar p

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-06 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Thanks. Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as well? The > code you fixed in escape-backslash-for-texinfo-in-source isn't in 3.8.2, but > it > appears to have similar problems elsewhere. Have you tried fixing the Makefile.am frag

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 06, 2015 05:08:05 PM Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Scott, > > To finish this up, here is a debdiff between 4.0.0-1 and my version > that did build in a clean chroot. > > All the best > > Norbert > Thanks. Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as well? The code

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Scott, To finish this up, here is a debdiff between 4.0.0-1 and my version that did build in a clean chroot. All the best Norbert PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-06 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In the time I had today to work on it today, I didn't figure it out, but > thanks > for the progress. Hopefully someone else will have time. Probably the attached patch instead of editing the DOCSTRINGS will work Norbert --

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
Thanks, In the time I had today to work on it today, I didn't figure it out, but thanks for the progress. Hopefully someone else will have time. Scott K On Monday, July 06, 2015 10:50:40 AM Norbert Preining wrote: > Postscriptum: > > On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Norbert Preining wrote: > > * finally

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Postscriptum: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Norbert Preining wrote: > * finally the critical part - fix the argument processing in texinfo source > the problem is basically that > munge-texi.pl > creates code like > @qcode{"\a"} > which needs to be changed to > @qcode{"\\a"} > >

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Scott, ok, here is what you have to do, but I cannot *fully* fix it as the problem comes from munge-texi.pl What needs to be done are three things: * add texlive-fonts-recommended to the build deps this is necessary for newer texinfo (although nobody knows why ;-) diff --git a/de

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Scott, thanks for pointing us at that. I have contacted the texinfo upstream, as I have the strange feeling that I have seend a similar error floating by on the texinfo mailing list. On Sat, 04 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I was hoping one of you could take a look at #790626 to see if yo

Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

2015-07-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
I was hoping one of you could take a look at #790626 to see if you could determine why Octave is FTBFS with the new texinfo? It's a matter of some urgency since the Octave FTBFS is blocking the Qscintilla2 transition from finishing. Thanks, Scott K signature.asc Description: This is a digita