Ruby package version incorrect?

[Jon Lim]

On 01/06/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
> > Shouldn't the version of the ruby package be 1.8.4-1?
>
> Maybe.  Perhaps the ruby metapackage didn't get updated for some reason.
> It's a separate source package to the ruby1.8 one.
>
> > This certainly made me hesitate before installing, as I understood
> > Dapper shipped with 1.8.4.
>
> The best way to see what version of Ruby you've got is to ask ruby:
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-06-23) [i486-linux]
>
> (On Breezy, but that's just because I'm a wimp)

Hi Matt,

I installed anyway, as the worst case was to do it myself from source.
Ruby is 1.8.4 on Dapper. The metapackage should be updated to reflect
that. :)

Cheers,
Jon

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