[pdftex] bug report: pdflatex given segmentation fault

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:08:46PM +0200, holop ferenc wrote:

> hmm, Heiko Oberdiek said that
> > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 06:13:40PM +0200, Pieter Eendebak wrote:
> > 
> > > Running pdflatex (version is at the end of this mail) on the following 
> > > file gives a segmentation fault:
> > 
> > > pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce this with:
> >   pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> > Thus try a more uptodate pdfTeX.
> 
> i don't think it's a good idea ushering (casual) users
> to upgrade to beta software...  or is it? :)

a) "more uptodate" doesn't necessarily mean beta software
   there are many releases in between.
b) It is better to use a release with bugs, than beta software
   that fixes the bugs?
c) pdfTeX is free software. Its users may help the pdfTeX
   developers by trying beta or even alpha software.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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