Re: octave-htmldoc

[Torsten]

On 20.02.2015 21:21, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 15:02:35 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
>>> maybe this would break the apt - system, but would make the octave
>>> info system work again, specifically if you are using the octave
>>> gui.
>>
>> Then this is a Debian packaging bug. They should not be providing
>> texinfo files that Octave itself can't read. Please report this bug to
>> Debian.
> 
> This has been fixed since Debian version 3.8.2-3. This version is
> available in both Debian and Ubuntu, but not Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10.
> Please report an Ubuntu bug actually, if you want this fix backported
> to one of those Ubuntu versions (and I'll probably be the one to
> respond).
> 
>> We should also patch the Octave GUI to be able to read compress
>> texinfo files. I thought it already did. This is an Octave bug. Please
>> report it to us.
> 
> Yes, this would be nice to fix for the upcoming 4.0 release. I am not
> sure if it already has been fixed or not, but there was definitely an
> open bug report about it.
> 

This is octave bug #38305 (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38305). I have
submitted a patch that replaces the use of QProcess for the unzipping
process with an approach based on popen.

Torsten