Re: Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 23:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
When I run xpdf I get the message
"Warning: Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab".

The program seems to run in spite of this.
I googled for the message, with a number of hits,
but none had any suggestion of a solution, or a cause.

Developers who introduce warning messages like this
should be sentenced to read the complete works of Kim Jong Il.

I suspect that warning is for developers, not users.
It would be nice if those kind of errors were only produced if debug
package was installed - or if started with a switch asking for it.

The message may not even be part of xpdf but from a library xpdf uses
(perhaps uses incorrectly or in a deprecated way that will break in
future - hence a warning)

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