Comment 4 for bug 762208

Yes, I double-checked your package also and it is correct. This is my bad, assertions were actually enabled by default in release mode due to a bug in my configure file. This is also fixed in v2.7.3 and should improve performance quite a bit :)

Thanks a lot for the bug report and please package v2.7.3 :)
Please do not hesitate to file bug reports again.