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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