2011/11/20 Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reich...@gmail.com>:
> On 20.11.2011, at 21:11, Carnë Draug wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> a recent change in octave core (in pkg.m and news.m) will allows users
>> to read the NEWS file of packages from the octave prompt too. For
>> example, news("signal") would show the NEWS from the signal package
>> instead of the core NEWS.
>>
>> For the new functionality to happen, the NEWS file needs to be in the
>> root of the package. However, some of the packages in octave-forge
>> have this file in doc/. As such, I'm moving them.
>>
>> Other less common files that pkg recognizes during package
>> installation are ONEWS (for when the NEWS file becomes too long) and
>> ChangeLog (a much more detailed description of changes on each
>> release. Something like the output of svn log).
>>
>> Carnë
>
> Hi Carnë
>
> The control package is one of these. Go ahead, but please make sure that the
> Makefile is adapted accordingly such that the NEWS file doesn't get lost by
> installation.
>
> Lukas
Well remembered. Most packages don't have one, I had forgot about it.
Should be fixed now. Thanks
Carnë
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