From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 23 11:50:31 2006
Subject: Re: Octave 2.1.73 available for ftp
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: octave bug mailing list <bug at octave dot org>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:50:28 -0500

On 23-Mar-2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| >On 23-Mar-2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:
| >
| >| Yes, I just found one: freqz is broken for FIR filters in 2.1.73. I 
| >| reported this earlier 
| >| (http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/bug-octave/2006/87), but I then 
| >| followed it up by noting that it had already been fixed in CVS. I 
| >| assumed that the changes had also been applied to the 2.1.x tree, but 
| >| apparently they haven't. I'm keeping the patch I had for this in the 
| >| Fedora release, so users of that package will not have this problem, but 
| >| it probably should be applied to CVS so that this will be fixed in the 
| >| next 2.1.x release if there is one.
|
| >Does the 2.9.x code work correctly with Octave 2.1.x?  If you can
| >confirm that, then I'll put the 2.9.x version in the 2.1.x tree.
| 
| Yes. The patch I've had on the 2.1.72 release in Fedora basically 
| changed it to the 2.9.x version, and it works fine.

[Oops, I should have copied my first reply to the lists.]

I've copied the 2.9.x version to the 2.1.x sources.

jwe