Bug#776434: gnuplot: Installing both gnuplot and gnuplot5 breaks gnuplot4 help
Antonio Ospite
ao2 at ao2.it
Tue Jan 27 23:06:34 UTC 2015
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.6.6-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
when installing both gnuplot and gnuplot5 the gnuplot4 help is broken
with this error:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
$ gnuplot4
G N U P L O T
Version 4.6 patchlevel 6 last modified September 2014
Build System: Linux x86_64
Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2014
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
gnuplot home: http://www.gnuplot.info
faq, bugs, etc: type "help FAQ"
immediate help: type "help" (plot window: hit 'h')
Terminal type set to 'qt'
gnuplot> help
/usr/share/gnuplot/gnuplot.gih: No such file or directory
gnuplot>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
To reproduce that just install gnuplot, then install gnuplot5 and then
try using the 'help' command from gnuplot4.
I am not sure if this is a bug in gnuplot or gnuplot5 but I am filing it
here because gnuplot4 is the broken package.
Thanks,
Antonio
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-rc5-ao2 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii gnuplot-qt [gnuplot-x11] 4.6.6-1
gnuplot recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnuplot suggests:
ii feedgnuplot 1.34-2
pn gnuplot-doc <none>
pn libgnuplot-iostream-dev <none>
pn python-gnuplot <none>
-- no debconf information
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Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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