[XeTeX] [off-topic] xetex crash in Ubuntu 10.04

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sat, 08 May 2010 11:36:30 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:

> Hi there,
> 
> due to the version of geometry included in TeXLive 2009, the following 
> code crashes xetex when compiling it with Ubuntu 10.04:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[a4paper,truedimen,mag=1500]{geometry}
> \begin{document}
> Hi
> \end{document}
> 
> This bug should be included also in all Ubuntu versions that provide 
> TeXLive 2009. I have already reported the bug almost a week ago 
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/573951), 
> but I had no reply. I'm new to Ubuntu, but not to GNU/Linux. The fix, as 
> described in my report, is simple: update the geometry version. I wonder 
> why it takes so long.
> 
> For those Ubuntu users that can confirm the crash, could you mark that 
> this bug also affects to you?

Well sorry, if you are using a texlive version without update
manager it is up to you to update packages like geometry. You can't
expect the ubuntu people to keep pace with all the updates on CTAN -
even if such an update corrects a severe problem in a package.

Btw: "crash" in general doesn't refer to a simple latex error like
the one you get but to a real crash of an application. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer