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

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 11:22:44AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 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. 

The decision was taken because some packages required some other
packages. When running the testsuite during the autobuilding (or
sometimes even during the normal build), these packages would break, as
the dependencies were not fulfilled - packages were installed, but not
loaded. 

	Thomas