[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave's NEWS file

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Sat May 3 07:13:30 UTC 2008


On 02/05/08 16:36 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  2-May-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:
> 
> | I just discovered that we have Octave's NEWS file under
> | /usr/share/octave/3.0.1/ and under /usr/share/doc/octave3.0. 
> | >From the changelog:
> | 2007-01-24  John W. Eaton  <jwe at octave.org>
> | 	* octMakefile.in (install): Install NEWS file.
> | 	(uninstall): Remove it.
> | 
> | Should we keep the file there?
> 
> For the "news" function to work, the NEWS file must be installed in
> 
>   $datadir/octave/$version/NEWS

Ah, that explains.

Anyway, patch attached for the deprecated warning.

	Thomas
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