[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#410175: Please disable assertion checking in lyx

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Package: lyx
Version: 1.4.3-2

In debian (and ubuntu by consequence) lyx 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 assertions in lyx be disabled (in all the frontends, of
course) ? 

Many bugs are opened on lyx because of crashes due to assertions
triggered by mathed code, and other distributions disable assertions for
what it matters.