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

[Georg Baum]

Am Mittwoch 14 Februar 2007 23:10 schrieb Sven Hoexter:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:02:24PM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> > 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.
>
> At least I think that these bugs are not that many but well I can
> understand the reasoning for this wish.

I know of one reproducible crash which I could not yet investifaget, but in 
general it does not trigger very often for me.

> I'm thinking about turning assertions off for the 1.4.4 package.
> What would be more important is a decision if we'd like to see the change
> aswell in the 1.4.3 package which will be released with etch in about (oh
> I better don't bet on a release date again) ^aeh soon.
>
> If we'd like to see the change for etch aswell this bugs needs a priority
> upgrade with a good reasoning behind it.
> IMHO the upstream docs clearly say that it's a feature for development
> and not for end users so I personally find that a reason good enough to
> turn it off.

I don't think it is that important. Far more important would be to get 
latex-xft-fonts in etch again. As it looks now it will not be included, and 
that will make math in LyX nearly unusable.


Georg