Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-10-10 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Mike Miller [2014-10-08 08:49]: On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 00:22:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: That said, I would follow Sébastien's suggestion and disable compression of info files for jessie. I'm probably a bit biased by seeing the 3.8 GUI as a best-effort experimental feature, and

Bug#762078: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-10-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 00:22:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Sébastien Villemot [2014-10-07 23:00]: > > >I am tempted to disable compression of info files, since it is an easy fix > >for the problem with the GUI, and the cost in terms of additional space is > >limited (something like 2MB

Bug#762078: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-10-07 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Sébastien Villemot [2014-10-07 23:00]: I am tempted to disable compression of info files, since it is an easy fix for the problem with the GUI, and the cost in terms of additional space is limited (something like 2MB). At any rate, we need to reach a decision soon, since the jessie freeze

Bug#762078: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-10-07 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 07 octobre 2014 à 09:48 -0400, Mike Miller a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:09:48 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > reason for this is that the octave-gui cannot handle compressed info files, > > please consider shipping them uncompressed in the package, thanks. > > Thanks for your b

Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-10-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:09:48 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > reason for this is that the octave-gui cannot handle compressed info files, > please consider shipping them uncompressed in the package, thanks. Thanks for your bug report. As you noted, this is due to compressed info files not being

Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-09-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
reason for this is that the octave-gui cannot handle compressed info files, please consider shipping them uncompressed in the package, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.

Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

2014-09-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: octave Version: 3.8.2-2 Severity: normal Tag: upstream when clicking on any of the on disk help via Help / Documentation, the gui freezes for 15-30s. this was also reported in ubuntu as #1314844, and i hit the same bug with the current octave version (octave-info and octave-html both