Le lundi 06 avril 2015 à 11:22 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
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. Any decent scripting language requires that users explicitly
load the needed modules, like Python ("import module") and R
("library(module)").
I prepared the changes in my local Git repositories and will push them
if nobody objects.
My proposal would be to make this change in all 'Forge packages at the
same time as we make the transition to Octave 4.0. We would announce
the policy change in the NEWS.Debian file of the octave package. And
that would ensure a simultaneous migration to testing of the
modification in 'Forge packages (at least for the arch:any packages).