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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* 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