(Sorry I didn't mention this befor but its also the convention of this mailing lost to bottom post to make readability easier. See http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html. )
according to the report the bug was closed with a patch pushed to the stable branch in feb 2019. I'm just always get confused on what that means fkr when it wad/will be included in a released version of Octave (eg, is it in the latest Octave 5.2.1 or is it pending for 6)