[maemo-developers] Broken packages in Extras repository

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

I confirm some still have problem running Vectormine which depends on
pygame, which depends on numpy which depends on libsdl-ttf2 .... :)

2010/9/4 Mikko Vartiainen <mvartiainen at gmail.com>:
> 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
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