[Pkg-octave-devel] Forcing Autoload to "yes"

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-05-16 23:37]:

> On 16/05/08 21:22 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > I patched both nan and tsa packages to have "Autoload: yes" in DESCRIPTION.
> > I suspect that this setting is lacking in those packages for some reason. Do
> > you think it is appropriate to do it?  In particular, the octave-nan package
> > when installed will override many statistical functions, like mean and corr.
> 
> tsa depends on nan, so I guess it's for that reason. I think David
> mentioned at some point some packages overriding Octave's default
> functions and he didn't want to have that 'on' by default.
> 
> However, quite some packages out of main/ also don't autoload. I'm a
> lazy guy, so I'm not too happy about that, actually.

I also think that not autoloading an Octave pkg defeats the purpose of
having a Debian package for it.  When a user installs octave-foo, she would
expect that calls to foo_*() work out of the box in Octave.

-- 
Rafael