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

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Sat May 10 06:23:08 UTC 2008


On  3-May-2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-05-03 09:13]:
| 
| > On 02/05/08 16:36 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > > 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
| > 
| > Ah, that explains.
| > 
| > Anyway, patch attached for the deprecated warning.
| 
| The changeset attached below fixes the remaining isstr problems.  I hope it
| is thorough.

I applied it.

Thanks,

jwe



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