[maemo-developers] Broken packages in Extras repository

[From: Mikko Vartiainen]

There are some broken packages in Extras repository which which are preventing some applications from working.

First there is issue libsdl-ttf2.0-0 vs. libsdl-ttf2.0 packages. At some point Nokia has included libsdl-ttf2.0 package in SDK and their repositories while Extras already had libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (which I believe to be the "correct" name because it is used in Debian). These packages are of course conflicting and older packages depend on Extras package and newer on Nokia package. Attila Csipa handled this issue in earlier mail.

Extras maintainer has updated his package to a dummy package which depends on Nokia package which fixes the problem. Updated package is found only from extras-devel and it's not going to promoted to Extras with normal procedures in near future so somebody who can should go and promote it..

Then there is python-numpy, which seems to be completely unfunctional. "import numpy" fails after installing it. After installing mypaint numpy seems to work, so python-numpy has broken dependencies.

Unfortunately there is updated python-pygame which uses numpy. So "import pygame" fails too, which breaks all pygame applications (if mypaint is not installed). Pygame automatically tries to use numpy, if it's installed.

To fix this situation I think somebody should fix numpy package and fast track promote it to Extras.

These packages have been broken for months according to time stamps in packages interface.

These fixes would only help those who already haven't installed broken packages, rest of the users would need to first remove some applications and then reinstall them.
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