It is possible to work around this bug by manually editing the file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/octave3.0-info.prerm' and commenting out the line running the 'install-info --quiet --remove' command.
Thanks to Lior Okman from the Linux-IL mailing list for pointing this out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

