Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-strings 1.0.7-4

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-03-17 22:38]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes:
> 
> > Also, note that I patched the package in order to have Autoload: yes.  I
> > vaguely remember that this was th policy that we adopted at the DOG,
> > mainly that all packages should be autoloaded.  Revert the commit if I am
> > wrong, please.
> 
> Actually I recently uploaded octave-nan and octave-data-smoothing which
> have Autoload: No.

I guess it should have Autoload: Yes.

> I’m not sure Autoload: No really makes sense for octave-data-smoothing,
> but it does for octave-nan: since this package overloads several core
> functions, it is sensible to load it only when the user requires it;
> having the package installed on your system does not mean you want to
> use it for all sessions.

Yes, nan should have Autoload: No.  We might want to change the
package description, though, which has this warning:

   "Be warned that this package changes the way NaNs are handled in Octave!"

Something like this could be better:

   "This package changes the way NaNs are handled in Octave.  In order
    to use its functions, the user must to explicitly add the appropriate
    directory to the Octave's path."

and then add information on how to do it in README.Debian.
 
Rafael