[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#456636: octave info docs not easily accessible

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Package: octave2.9-info
Version: 1:2.9.19-1
Severity: normal

The octave info docs are not accessible via "info octave".  
"info octave2.9" does work.

I can see in octave2.9-info.postinst that update-alternatives is
supposed to create an alternatives symlink for
/usr/share/info/octave.info.gz.  Furthermore I can see that the
symlinks have notionally been created: /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz
points to /etc/alternatives/octave.info.gz, which points to
/usr/share/info/octave2.9.info.gz.

Finally, accessing the symlink directly,  
"info /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz"
does work.

But the simple and "normal" usage, "info octave", fails (shows the
octave(1) man page instead of the info pages).

Thanks, Drew.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave2.9-info depends on:
ii  emacs [info-browser]  22.1+1-2.3         The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii  emacs21 [info-browser 21.4a+1-5.3        The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs22 [info-browser 22.1+1-2.3         The GNU Emacs editor
ii  info [info-browser]   4.11.dfsg.1-2      Standalone GNU Info documentation 
ii  jed [info-browser]    1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-9 editor for programmers (textmode v
ii  xjed [info-browser]   1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-9 editor for programmers (x11 versio

octave2.9-info recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information