[Pkg-octave-devel] Releasing octave 4.0.0~rc2 to experimental

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Wed Apr 22 13:27:23 UTC 2015


* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2015-04-22 12:37]:
>
> I would add these two others:
>
> 4) Describe the move to a GUI by default in the NEWS file, and document 
> the existence of --no-gui option and octave-cli for restoring the old 
> behavior.

Yes, this will be mandatory when releasing to unstable.  We should also 
document the fact that autoloading of package will be disabled by 
default, what my break users' legacy code.

Rafael

P.S.: @Sébastien: I sent my previous RFU message before rading your 
message above.  If you see fit, you can add the items in d/NEWS before 
the release to experimental.



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