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

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 13:27:45 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2015-04-06 11:49]:
>> 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.

Sounds good to me too, prominent NEWS announcement with a new major
release makes sense.

I don't have a hard reference for any "policy" decision on this
upstream, but ISTR it was in the context of a project to overhaul the
"pkg" command [1], not yet merged upstream. I think it was discussed
to drop a few confusing and less used features of pkg, including
autoloading and global/local installation paths.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/carandraug/octave/branch/pkg

-- 
mike