Bug#908095: Buster: Kwrite crashes while opening a file

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

tag 908095 upstream
thanks

local10 - 07.09.18, 12:15:
> Was able to open the problematic file by reconfiguring Kwrite and
> changing the default encoding to UTF-8 and the fallback encoding to
> UTF-16 (Kwrite keeps changing UTF-16 to ucs2 but whatever).
> 
> That's a good news for me, of course, but still I feel Kwrite
> shouldn't crash like that even if the default and fallback encoding
> do not match the file's encoding. In Wheezy I sometimes would open a
> binary file with Kwrite and I don't even remember when Kwrite crashed
> like that, if it ever did.

This is an upstream issue.

Please report with https://bugs.kde.org if not already done so and 
report the link to this bug report. By doing so you help our small 
Debian Qt/KDE team a lot. Bugs to Debian are not automatically forwarded 
to the upstream bug tracker.

Before doing so please retest with Kate 18.08 which is available in 
Buster meanwhile.

Actually, for smaller upstream issues I think its better to just report 
upstream. If there is an upstream patch depending on the severity of the 
issue and on planned release date of next Debian stable release, it can 
make sense to open a Debian bug report asking to include it.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin