>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> BTW, how comes that lyx on debian triggers assertions? Do you keep >> them on intentionally? Sven> s/intentionally/historically/ would be the better term. As far Sven> as I can travel back in our svn they've been always enabled. Sven> They're even enabled in the 1.3.4 package in Debian/sarge. The Sven> changelog has nothing to say about the when and why either. It Sven> seems to have not triggert masses of bugreports so far so I Sven> think it might be good to keep them enabled to continue to catch Sven> things like the reported one. If you think it's too much of a Sven> burden for the user I can of course turn them off for the next Sven> package upload. The only problem with assertions is that they can slow down LyX. Other than that, it is often better to crash (and have an emergency save) as soon as something fishy is detected. JMarc
