[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-geometry 1.6.0-1

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sébastien Villemot
<sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
>
>> Please upload octave-geometry 1.6.0-1 to experimental.
>
> There seems to be a problem. After compiling and installing, I get this
> warning when running octave from within the source directory:
>
> warning: Adding path for testing.
> octave:1>
>
> This is because PKG_ADD tests if there is an inst/ subdir in the current
> dir, and in that case it does not correctly set the path. I consider
> this to be a bug. I don't see an obvious workaround. What do you think?
>
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Is that a problem?

Running from source directory is used for testing without installing.
If the user wants to use the package they should install it. The
warning shouldn't appear in that case.

Let me know if you have a better idea for how to load the package only
for testing.

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