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

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Sat May 10 06:27:05 UTC 2008


On  3-May-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:

| 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.

I applied it.

Thanks,

jwe



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