Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ruby1.9
$ grep DESC /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1" $ ruby1.9 --version ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [x86_64-linux] $ svn info http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_0_0 (snip) Last Changed Rev: 14711 Last Changed Date: 2007-12-25 10:27:31 -0600 (Tue, 25 Dec 2007) That's actually two revisions behind the tag for the initial 1.9.0 release. But 1.9.0 is a moving target: $ svn info http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_0_3 Last Changed Rev: 18218 Last Changed Date: 2008-07-25 08:26:23 -0500 (Fri, 25 Jul 2008) For those keeping score, this means the Ubuntu package is exactly seven months behind upstream, on a developer release. I'm really not sure I see the point of keeping a known "stable" version here -- if that's what you want, there's always Ruby 1.8, which is even more out-of-date, but at least there's a point to keeping it stable. By "hopelessly out of date", I mean that I know of at least one third- party library which depends on a bugfix introduced in more recent versions of Ruby1.9. Possible resolutions: - Update Ruby 1.9 (or point me to a repository) - Remove Ruby 1.9 (what's an unstable dev branch doing in an LTS release?!) - Provide a -installer package to ease usage of SVN (I'll write it if needed) ** Affects: ruby1.9 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Ruby1.9 is hopelessly out of date https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
