William, perhaps you remember that for lyx 1.4.3 in feisty I had a sponsored upload to disable assertions in lyx.
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/l/lyx/lyx_1.4.3-2ubuntu1/changelog The related bug was https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/82365 I don't want to reopen that bug, so I just comment here, since we're talking of a new upload anyway. You can read there motivations to disable assertions in lyx. After the resync with debian for 1.5, my change has been reverted. If you really are going to upload the new version, could you please disable assertions again? The situation is unchanged, in particular: - Assertions are still disabled by default by upstream, and enabled in debian. - This is because these assertions are used for debugging purposes by upstream. They are not meant as a production feature. Assertions are still used extensively in lyx for these debug purposes, this leading to slowdown. Try both versions and you'll see for yourself. - The reason for enabling them in debian is that they believe this will help debugging lyx. This is still not the policy followed in other packages: by following that rule, willing to help debugging, we should distribute debug versions of all our packages, slow them all, and let them die for a wide range of minor problems - Assertions still cause crashes when editing insets. While I should report them, I also know by experience that this won't affect the document at all, these are bugs related to rendering, and assertions are affecting user experience here, while an user is not a beta tester. - Finally, all these reasons, in the end, where considered valid to revert debian change in 1.4.3 to what upstream does, i.e. disabling assertions, and my upload was accepted. I ask you and everybody else who uploads lyx to keep my change intact. If you're not going for UVFe, since we are still in beta, I ask you to just upload a package without assertions as a bugfix. -- gutsy: lyx 1.5.0 should be updated to 1.5.1 due to serious bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141606 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
