Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: reassign -1 octave 4.0.3-3
Control: retitle -1 octave: Document the need for pkg load
* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [2018-11-24 11:56]:
Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 à 11:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
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Do the other members of the DOG agree with this change?
That seems excessive to me. The fact that OF packages are not auto-
loaded is the consequence of a global setting (in Octave itself), so it
does not make sense to document it in individual packages.
I share your opinion. Adding a README.Debian for each package is
excessive and would be a maintenance burden, as well. Besides that, this
is not really a bug. I am hereby decreasing the severity of this bug
report from normal to wishlist.
I would rather update the README.Debian of octave. It currently tells
never to use the "pkg" command, which is bad advice, since that command
is needed to load the packages.
Yes, documenting it in the README.Debian of octave is the sensible thing
to do. I am hereby reassigning this bug report to the octave package and
adjusting its title.
I think that the current advice in the README.Debian of octave regards
the use of "pkg install". At any rate, the wording is wrong and must be
fixed.
Rafael
