[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: Could lyx package in debian (and ubuntu) be compiled without assertions enabled?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:

[nearly full quote for pkg-lyx mailinglist]

> Hi, I am a lyx user, using ubuntu, whose lyx package is the debian one
> without any modifications.
Well it's still not really comparable but that's another topic.

> This package is compiled with assertions
> turned on by default (--enable-assertions in configure), and this causes
> lyx to crash very often (especially when editing arrays) because of
> assertions triggered by UI code, small mistakes in insets drawing and so
> on. I tried to disable assertions and everything runs fine (and it never
> happened to me to see a "real" bug), by the way other distributions do
> this too. Could you disable assertions in lyx? Why where they enabled?
They were and are enabled to help to catch bugs. Speaking for myself I can
say that it's not really often that I run into assertions.


> With the original package, I could not work in lyx anymore, it was
> crashing almost everytime I pressed the down arrow, and upstream will
> not fix, because there is version 1.5 to be released, but 1.4 will stay
> in debian and ubuntu for a while, I suppose.
If you can reproduce the bugs and if it's really something hurting in practical
use I'm sure someone will fix it in the 1.4.x branch aswell.
Filling a bug upstream with an explanation on how to reproduce the assertion
would be a good start (this only counts for the qt frontend).

You're still free to fill a bug at the corresponding ubuntu bug tracker and
ask to disable the assertions for the default Ubuntu package.


Sven
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