[Pkg-octave-devel] Manpages for octave-cli and octave-gui
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Jan 2 19:56:25 UTC 2014
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-01-02 10:28]:
>
> However, there will be still octave-cli installed into bin. Since the
> Debian Policy requires that every program in /usr/bin/ have a man
> page, I kept the octave-cli.1.gz link and patched the octave.1 man
> page to read:
>
> DESCRIPTION
> Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical com‐
> putations. It provides convenient command line (octave-cli command)
> and graphical user (octave command) interfaces for solving linear and
> nonlinear problems numerically.
>
> Would this change be appropriate for the upstream sources?
The text above clearly does not reflect the situation of the final 3.8.0
release, since the octave command launches the CLI. I am right now
working on a more accurate text.
Rafael
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