Ruby not up-to-date (bug 12613)

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

Hi,

See buzilla 12613 for more information. The bug has been assigned to 
Debzilla.

My question is who or what is debzilla? I'm assuming (as Ruby is fixed 
in Debian) its a means of folding fixes from Debian back into Ubuntu. Is 
this an automatic process or a pseudonym for a developer? Whats the 
turnaround time for debzilla?

I'm asking (as you might have figured out) because this "Bug" is holding 
up some Ruby development I'm working on atm and would rather have an 
update from Ubuntu/Debian rather than patch the problem with a custom 
install of Ruby (I've tried this already and encountered all sorts of 
weirdness).

I'm on Hoary (and I also assume this affects Warty).

Thanks in advance for your help! :-)

Nicholas