[maemo-developers] Broken packages in Extras repository

[From: Mikko Vartiainen]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
> Unless I'm grossly mistaken, that does not solve the problem. First of all,
> most apps depending on it do not depend on it as a version, so H-A-M will
> never update it on it's own, even if the newer version is in Extras. Second,
> if you already installed, you will not be able to update as the package in
> the nokia repo has no provides/replaces clause, so apt will fail as it will
> try to overwrite a file already existing in the package that triggered the
> upgrade. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10450 is quite silent so I
> might need to poke someone (kinda tried that last week, but apparently
> wasn't adamant enough :)

Yes I realise that it doesn't solve the problem completely. Currently
Extras is broken for everybody, but if we promote libsdl-ttf2.0-0,
Extras is fine for people who haven't installed libsdl-ttf2.0(-0) or
have the ability uninstall it. After 2 months something could be done?
Unless this leads to even worse situation.

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Mikko Vartiainen