gnuplot.info.gz not a complete info file

Bug #105784 reported by Karl Hegbloom
4
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gnuplot (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

For gnuplot-doc-4.0.0-5, maintained by Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>, when I attempt to view the Gnuplot info documentation, I get an error about it not being able to find node "Top". I looked at /usr/share/info/gnuplot.info.gz with zless, and see that it contains only the index. Here's one possible solution:

--- rules 2007/04/12 05:55:04 1.1
+++ rules 2007/04/12 05:56:16
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
  dh_testdir
  ./configure $(confflags) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \
    --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man \
- --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \
+ --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info MAKEINFO='makeinfo --no-split' \
    --datadir=\$${prefix}/share/gnuplot \
    --libexecdir=\$${prefix}/lib/gnuplot \
    --without-gnu-readline --without-lasergnu \

That will cause the 'makeinfo' to be run with the '--no-split' option. The other possibility is to have the rule that installs them glob and get all of the files gnuplot.info*.

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Paul Whittaker (launchpad-pdw) wrote :

I'm also getting this problem. Trying to view the gnuplot entry in Emacs gives the error "info-insert-file-contents: Can't find gnuplot.info-1 or any compressed version of it".

The relevant section of gnuplot.info.gz would appear to be:

Indirect:
gnuplot.info-1: 206
gnuplot.info-2: 291476

Neither of the ...-1 or ...-2 files are present in the package, and do not appear to be in any package when searching at packages.ubuntu.com.

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Paul Whittaker (launchpad-pdw) wrote :

In the meantime, manually replacing the packaged copy of /usr/share/info/gnuplot.info.gz with a gzipped copy of the (single) gnuplot.info file in ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/gpdoc.zip worked fine for me.

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LaserJock (laserjock) wrote :

This is fixed in the new 4.2 upstream release that is in Gutsy.

Changed in gnuplot:
status: New → Fix Released
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