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Package: maxima-doc
Version: 5.47.0-8
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
Installed maxima for the first time. Open maxima or xmaxima, run
`describe("plot2d");`. Get the following:
```
Cannot find documentation for `plot2d': missing info file
/usr/share/doc/maxima/info/./maxima.info-1
-- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
```
I noticed `maxima-doc` installed this file:
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-1.gz
So I think either maxima-doc is installing to the wrong location or maxima
and xmaxima are configured to look in the wrong place.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.10.7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages maxima-doc depends on:
ii tex-common 6.19
maxima-doc recommends no packages.
maxima-doc suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Greetings, and thanks for your report! And thanks to all the
contributors to this thread.
I've restored the existing functionality, but I agree the situation
could be improved, and likely calls for some change in maxima upstream.
patching load-info-hashtables is indeed not the "right" place to address
this, but rather to arrange that it be called with the correct info path
dir without assuming this is the same as the directory of
maxima-index.lisp.
Reading compressed files is not a problem at least in GCL based systems,
providing the variable si::*allow-gzipped-file* is set, which this
package does.
maxima does indeed already carry the correct information in
maxima::*maxima-infodir*. Typically these directory locations are set
in configure. I do not really know how to make it work both when
installed, and only when build using maxima-local.
I agree a better location for maxima-index.lisp is in
/usr/share/maxima/VERSION, and will try to remember to make this change
in a subsequent package release.
--
Camm Maguire [email protected]
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