On 20.11.2011, at 22:11, Carnë Draug wrote:

> 2011/11/20 Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reich...@gmail.com>:
>> On 20.11.2011, at 21:11, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> a recent change in octave core (in pkg.m and news.m) will allows users
>>> to read the NEWS file of packages from the octave prompt too. For
>>> example, news("signal") would show the NEWS from the signal package
>>> instead of the core NEWS.
>>> 
>>> For the new functionality to happen, the NEWS file needs to be in the
>>> root of the package. However, some of the packages in octave-forge
>>> have this file in doc/. As such, I'm moving them.
>>> 
>>> Other less common files that pkg recognizes during package
>>> installation are ONEWS (for when the NEWS file becomes too long) and
>>> ChangeLog (a much more detailed description of changes on each
>>> release. Something like the output of svn log).
>>> 
>>> Carnë
>> 
>> Hi Carnë
>> 
>> The control package is one of these. Go ahead, but please make sure that the 
>> Makefile is adapted accordingly such that the NEWS file doesn't get lost by 
>> installation.
>> 
>> Lukas
> 
> Well remembered. Most packages don't have one, I had forgot about it.
> Should be fixed now. Thanks
> 
> Carnë

I downloaded the GNU Tarball from [1] and installed the package. Unfortunately, 
the NEWS file still gets lost upon package installation. Could you please fix 
that?

Lukas

PS: IIRC I had similar problems some time ago. This must have been the reason 
why I put NEWS into /doc.

[1]
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/control/?view=tar



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