[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#712079: octave-signal: fir1 broken for high order filters

[charlie]

Package: octave-signal
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
Start octave.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
octave:1> fir1(10000, [0.01])
error: fir2: grid size must be greater than half the filter order
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/signal-1.2.2/fir2.m at line 89, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/packages/signal-1.2.2/fir1.m at line 109, column 3

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
The generation of a correct finite impulse response filter. This syntax is correct, and has worked for years. This system is updated ~weekly; the bug is probably in the newest update.

This bug appears to be the same as Octave's bug #39177. Second critical-path bug I've seen in 'testing' in more than a decade with Debian. The first was yesterday (hugin). Will revert to previous package. 

Thank you!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave-signal depends on:
ii  libc6           2.17-3
ii  libgcc1         1:4.8.0-7
ii  liboctave1      3.6.4-2
ii  libstdc++6      4.8.0-7
ii  octave          3.6.4-2
ii  octave-control  2.4.2-2
ii  octave-general  1.3.2-2
ii  octave-specfun  1.1.0-1

octave-signal recommends no packages.

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