[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#470730: Bug#470730: Bug#470730: qgis-plugin-grass: QGis crashes if a GRASS vector is faulty

[Harri Kiiskinen]

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:50:04PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Harri Kiiskinen ha scritto:
>>> Package: qgis-plugin-grass
>>> Version: 0.8.1-2+b1
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> When trying to open a GRASS vector which for some reason is not ok, i.e.
>>> faulty, instead of gracefully telling the user, that the vector is not
>>> ok, the whole QGis crashes. This is *irritating*, this kind of exception
>>> should be handled in a more appropriate fashion.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Harri K.
>>>
>>> -- System Information:
>>> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>>>   APT prefers testing
>>>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>>
>>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
>>> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>>>
>>> Versions of packages qgis-plugin-grass depends on:
>>> ii  libgdal1-1.4.0-grass          1.4.4-1+b1 GRASS extension for the
>>> Geospatial
>>> ii  qgis                          0.8.1-2+b1 Geographic Information
>>> System (GIS
>>>
>>> qgis-plugin-grass recommends no packages.
>>>
>>> -- no debconf information
>> It's a known upstream bug.
>> The solution is to upgrade to 0.9.1 or (better) wait for 0.9.2, due at
>> the beginning of april 2008.
>> pc
> 
> That should be closed by 0.9.1-1 currently uploaded in sid. Would you
> please verify it's ok?

0.9.1-1 works well, instead of crashing it shows a more or less helpful
message.

Harri K.