[Pkg-octave-devel] New auto-loading policy

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2015-04-06 11:49]:
>
> Le lundi 06 avril 2015 à 11:22 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>>
>> I think it makes sense to remove all autoload-yes patches.  I do not 
>> remember why we took the decision of enforcing autoload for all 
>> Octave-Forge packages in Debian, but it was probably not a good 
>> decision. Any decent scripting language requires that users explicitly 
>> load the needed modules, like Python ("import module") and R 
>> ("library(module)").
>>
>> I prepared the changes in my local Git repositories and will push them 
>> if nobody objects.
>
> My proposal would be to make this change in all 'Forge packages at the 
> same time as we make the transition to Octave 4.0. We would announce 
> the policy change in the NEWS.Debian file of the octave package. And 
> that would ensure a simultaneous migration to testing of the 
> modification in 'Forge packages (at least for the arch:any packages).

Seconded.

Rafael