[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#470730: Bug#470730: qgis-plugin-grass: QGis crashes if a GRASS vector is faulty

[Paolo Cavallini]

Harri Kiiskinen ha scritto:
> Package: qgis-plugin-grass
> Version: 0.8.1-2+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> When trying to open a GRASS vector which for some reason is not ok, i.e.
> faulty, instead of gracefully telling the user, that the vector is not
> ok, the whole QGis crashes. This is *irritating*, this kind of exception
> should be handled in a more appropriate fashion.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Harri K.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages qgis-plugin-grass depends on:
> ii  libgdal1-1.4.0-grass          1.4.4-1+b1 GRASS extension for the
> Geospatial
> ii  qgis                          0.8.1-2+b1 Geographic Information
> System (GIS
> 
> qgis-plugin-grass recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information

It's a known upstream bug.
The solution is to upgrade to 0.9.1 or (better) wait for 0.9.2, due at
the beginning of april 2008.
pc
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Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc