[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave's NEWS file

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-May-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:

| I just discovered that we have Octave's NEWS file under
| /usr/share/octave/3.0.1/ and under /usr/share/doc/octave3.0. 
| >From the changelog:
| 2007-01-24  John W. Eaton  <jwe at octave.org>
| 	* octMakefile.in (install): Install NEWS file.
| 	(uninstall): Remove it.
| 
| Should we keep the file there?

For the "news" function to work, the NEWS file must be installed in

  $datadir/octave/$version/NEWS

jwe