Version Bug with Ruby

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

I posted that mail. Unfortunately I have not recieved any reply as to 
how debzilla functions or the time-scale one can expect for such a bug fix.

To summarise the problem so far:

The version of Ruby in Hoary is a beta release of the current Ruby 
stable. Certain Ruby packages require the non-beta up-to-date stable 
version of Ruby as there were (apparently) some important bug fixes made 
between the beta snapshot that is on Ubuntu and the current stable 
version. The debian package from which the Hoary package is derived is 
fixed to the latest final current release. Packages such as Rails (the 
ubiquitous web application development tool that seems to be making 
waves in the web-dev community) require the latest version of Ruby and 
have started to enforce this requirement (just over a week ago).

The bug was duly reported and has been assigned to debzilla at ubuntu.org. 
Hence the reason for my question.

So, the problem still remains, and apart from a few brave individuals 
who are trying (unsuccessfully) to get around the issue, not a lot seems 
to be happening.

Thanks in advance for your help in this matter and for making Ubuntu a 
great operating system,

Regards,

Nicholas

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 11:17 +0200, Florian Ebeling a écrit :
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>> Hi,
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>> there is a serious bug/version conflict in Ubuntu Hoary which can be 
>> resolved by increasing the version of the
>> ruby1.8 package (from a beta to a release). How are things
>> handled in Ubuntu in such cases?
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> hi,
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> There is already a mail sent on this list, a few days ago, about this.
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> Cheers,
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> Sebastien Bacher
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