* Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org> [2015-02-15 10:37]:
Consider also that I have fixed this in Octave itself. If you like the upstream solution, you can apply this patch to 3.8 for now, and it will be part of the 4.0 release soon:http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/72e32208ff77 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43087
Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. However, I see that your change in script mk_doc_cache.m and in function doc_cache_create keeps OCTAVE_VERSION in the header of doc-cache. This could be potential a potential source of non-reproducible builds (for instance, when building a package with different versions od Octave). I think I will stick to Chris' patch.
Best Rafael