On 09-08-2022 15:07, Daniel Meißner wrote:
> The Maxima command ‘describe’ allows to pick the relevant portions from
> Maxima’s Texinfo docs.  However it does not support reading gzipped info
> files.
>
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (maxima)[arguments]<phases>: Delete
> 'compress-documentation phase.
> ---
>
> Thanks for the review, Maxime.  Here's the updated patch.
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
>   gnu/packages/maths.scm | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
> index c10794a089..48c10906ed 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
> @@ -4420,7 +4420,11 @@ (define-public maxima
>                  ;; components at runtime.
>                  (wrap-program (string-append out "/bin/maxima")
>                    `("PATH" prefix (,binutils))))
> -             #t)))))
> +             #t))
> +         ;; The Maxima command ‘describe’ allows to pick the relevant portions
> +         ;; from Maxima’s Texinfo docs.  However it does not support reading
> +         ;; gzipped info files.
> +         (delete 'compress-documentation))))
>       (home-page"https://maxima.sourceforge.io")
>       (synopsis "Numeric and symbolic expression manipulation")
>       (description "Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and
To be clear, I did not verify the patch, but it looks fine to me.

LGTM,
Maxime.