[Bug 302110] [NEW] Please backport gretl 1.7.9 into 8.10

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Public bug reported:

 currently 1.7.5-1 is in intrepid, but there are some new functions and
bug fixes in the newer releases:

9/28/2008 Version 1.7.9 [Back to top]
- Revamp the data structure "wizard"
- Fix bugs 2102478, 2116172, 2118506 
- Periodogram graph: fix bug for case where the locale
  decimal separator is not '.'
- Add Russian translation, Turkish translation
- Small GUI fixes
- Modifications to web-downloader for new server settings
- Fix for non-ascii file names in session files on MS
  Windows
- genr: fix for unary minus in exponentiation (e.g. x^-.5)
- nls: fix R^2 printout
- dummify function: accept a second argument (see the help
  for details)
- ordered probit/logit: fix bug with displaying these 
  models in the GUI model window

 9/14/2008 Version 1.7.8 [Back to top]
- Add a language-switching option to the gretl GUI (under
  Preferences/General)
- Improve formatting of HCCME options pane
- Fix breakage in "rename" command (renaming series)
- Fix bug 2089048
- Enable Chow test for non-time series datasets
- Revise formatting style for model output
- Change the label "standard error of residuals" to
  "standard error of the regression"
- Allow users to change the text size in help windows
- Fix two more bugs in connection with user-defined
  functions in the context of a sub-sampled dataset
- Fix bug: with the --panel-vars option to the
  "setobs" command, check more carefully the validity 
  of the supposed unit and time-period index variables
- Chow test: perform a robust version if the original
  model was estimated using an HCCME
- OS X package: fix for the problem whereby GTK could
  lose track of its image-loading modules
- CSV data: improve recognition of daily dates
- PCA: fix column-order of components in printout for the
  case of more than 7 components
- Small fixes for opening of datafiles in GUI
- GARCH: add --nc option to suppress the constant in the
  mean equation; add --fcp option to use Fiorentini et al
  code; expand and update help entry
- Periodogram graph: always base y-axis at zero
- Seasonal ARMA: fix for bad handling of automatically
  added scalars

 8/28/2008 Version 1.7.7 [Back to top]
- Revamp of internal handling of scalar variables
- The --preserve option to the "nulldata" and "open" commands
  now preserves existing scalars as well as matrices
- Windows package: update to GTK+ 2.12.11 and friends
- Inside functions: restrict the smpl command within the
  bounds set on entry to the function
- setobs command: if used inside a function, revert the
  effects on exit
- ordered probit/logit: fix for the case where the dependent
  variable does not form a continuous integer sequence; 
  fix reporting of information criteria; switch to the mode
  of presentation of cut-points used by Stata and R
- string-editing dialogs: ensure we have a cancel button
- Saving data when the dataset is currently sub-sampled: 
  fix breakage whereby the option to restore the full dataset
  was not shown
- Naming variables: put in place more stringent checking to
  avoid name collisions across series, scalars, matrices, etc.
- VARs in saved sessions: ensure that we save the information
  needed for subsequent bootstrap analyses
- Fix the mechanism for searching for a user's customized
  LaTeX preamble file (got broken at some point)
- LaTeX compilation: be more lenient -- getting some output
  on standard error does not necessarily mean that 
  compilation has failed
- Determining the main gretl directory: try to handle the
  case where the user has a stale ~/.gretl2rc file
- Minor OS X fixes
- Respect keyboard "Esc" as dialog "Cancel" more consistently 
- Variable selection dialogs: allow use of right and left
  arrow keys to activate the "Add" and "Remove" buttons
- Linear models without a constant: print the centered R^2 as
  well as the uncentered 
- Fix for reading native data files containing auto-generated
  lags: re-establish the lag info correctly

 7/30/2008 Version 1.7.6 [Back to top]
- Fix bug: revise the way that list arguments to user-defined
  functions are handled, to avoid potential namespace 
  collisions
- Add menu item: Variable/Normality test
- Add $xlist accessor: gets the list of regressors from the
  last model
- Add $version accessor: gets the gretl version
- Add $windows accessor (1 if running on MS Windows, else 0)
- Add $datatype accessor (see function help)
- Remove some redundant preferences items
- Fix bugs 1996156, 1996161, 2017872, 2027121
- MLE fixes
- Fix for RTF output from GUI model table
- Function package help: ensure this is not truncated
- Fix bug: incorrect generation of NAs when doing "genr unitdum" 
  on a sub-sampled panel dataset
- Add new panel data functions: pmax, pmin, pnobs
- Internal: recode parts of the gretl GUI to avoid dependence
  on deprecated GTK APIs
- Speed-ups for loops containing genr commands
- Several fixes for reading and writing gretl session files
- Function packages: add facility to append a sample script
- Enhancements for GUI function-packager
- File dialogs: try to ensure that focus falls back to the right
  window when such windows are closed

** Affects: intrepid-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Please backport gretl 1.7.9 into 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302110
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