Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-25 Thread Rafael Laboissière
Control: found -1 4.4.1-2

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-25 Thread Rafael Laboissière
* James Van Zandt [2018-11-24 18:03]: I don't see why a Readme.DEBIAN file in each package would be difficult to manage. If needed, it could be generic, with the same text in each package, such as: By default installed packages are not available from the Octave prompt. The functions

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-24 Thread James Van Zandt
I don't see why a Readme.DEBIAN file in each package would be difficult to manage. If needed, it could be generic, with the same text in each package, such as: By default installed packages are not available from the Octave prompt. The functions from this package can be added to the

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-24 Thread Rafael Laboissière
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: reassign -1 octave 4.0.3-3 Control: retitle -1 octave: Document the need for pkg load * Sébastien Villemot [2018-11-24 11:56]: Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 à 11:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit : [snip] Do the other members of the DOG agree with

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-24 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 à 11:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit : > [Moving this discussion from Bug#914373 into debian-octave.] > > * James Van Zandt [2018-11-22 13:34]: > > > > [snip] > > > > Please provide a file /usr/share/doc/octave- > > statistics/README.Debian  > > with a note

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-24 Thread Rafael Laboissière
[Moving this discussion from Bug#914373 into debian-octave.] * James Van Zandt [2018-11-22 13:34]: [snip] Please provide a file /usr/share/doc/octave-statistics/README.Debian with a note something like By default installed packages are not available from the Octave prompt. The

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: octave-statistics Version: 1.4.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm a long-time user of Matlab. One of the things that's always annoyed me is that they put so many functions into toolkits that cost extra. I've appreciated that Octave made the statistics functions available with