[Pkg-octave-devel] New auto-loading policy
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Apr 9 11:39:57 UTC 2015
* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2015-04-09 12:26]:
> 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.
Thanks for recollecting this. We should take care of this problem when
time comes.
Rafael
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