[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

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 the 3.8.2 version.
> 
> Yes, I think the patch I submitted should be sufficient.
> 
> I'll try to find some time to do a true source package build test with
> octave-3.8.2-xbackslash-texinfo.diff, but I'm also a little short on
> time at the moment. Scott, if you beat me to it that would be helpful.

I'll try it and see if it builds.  If it does, I expect to do a direct upload 
NMU since this is the only thing blocking completion of a transition.

Scott K