[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-strings 1.0.7-4

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-03-17 22:38]:
>
>> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Also, note that I patched the package in order to have Autoload: yes.  I
>> > vaguely remember that this was th policy that we adopted at the DOG,
>> > mainly that all packages should be autoloaded.  Revert the commit if I am
>> > wrong, please.
>> 
>> Actually I recently uploaded octave-nan and octave-data-smoothing which
>> have Autoload: No.
>
> I guess it should have Autoload: Yes.

Done and uploaded.

>> I’m not sure Autoload: No really makes sense for octave-data-smoothing,
>> but it does for octave-nan: since this package overloads several core
>> functions, it is sensible to load it only when the user requires it;
>> having the package installed on your system does not mean you want to
>> use it for all sessions.
>
> Yes, nan should have Autoload: No.  We might want to change the
> package description, though, which has this warning:
>
>    "Be warned that this package changes the way NaNs are handled in Octave!"
>
> Something like this could be better:
>
>    "This package changes the way NaNs are handled in Octave.  In order
>     to use its functions, the user must to explicitly add the appropriate
>     directory to the Octave's path."
>
> and then add information on how to do it in README.Debian.

Done in git, but not yet uploaded.

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Sébastien Villemot
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