Package: ruby1.9-dev
Version: 1.9.0.0-2
Severity: minor

In ruby1.8-dev there was a file version.h which contains the values for
RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR etc. Having these definitions available is very
important for embedded ruby. This file is missing from ruby1.9-dev
although it still exists in the upstream tarball.

In addition, I'd like to encourage renaming this file to ruby_version.h
so it doesn't clash with similarly named files on the include path. This
should however not be done in Debian, instead upstream could be
persuaded, maybe for Ruby 2.0 but preferably already for the 1.x branch.
For comparison:
- perl provides PERL_*_APIVERSION in perl.h
- python provides PY_*_VERSION in patchlevel.h through Python.h
- tcl provides TCL_*_VERSION in tcl.h

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ruby1.9-dev depends on:
ii  libruby1.9                    1.9.0.0-2  Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.

Versions of packages ruby1.9-dev recommends:
ii  ruby1.9                       1.9.0.0-2  Interpreter of object-oriented scr

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