From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 23 10:50:37 2006
Subject: Re: 2.9.5 and 2.1.73
From: Colin Ingram <synergizedmusic at gmail dot com>
To: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian dot org>
CC: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:12:52 -0600

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> [2006-03-16 11:58]:
>
>   
>>
>> I think these have all been applied to the 2.9.x branch.
>>
>>
>>   50_mkoctfile.1-no-negative.dpatch
>>
>> I don't recall seeing anything about this one, so if you think it
>> needs to be applied, can you please forward the report(s) that
>> resulted in the patch?
>>     
>
> Colin Ingram is responsible for this patch.  I am Cc:ing this message to
> him.  [Colin: here is the context of this message is:
> http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2006/455]
>   
This patch was made to fix a lintian warning about un-escaped 
negatives/dashes in the man pages.  I don't think this patch fixed the 
problem though so it can be removed

sorry for the long reply I've been quite busy lately.