Issue has been fixed; this workaround is now not needed anymore!


A possible work-around only for Diablo (but if some of the most knowledgeable people around here finds that it's a complete non-sense, I'll retract this post):

- go to application manager
- main menu -> application catalogue
- select "maemo Extras" and click on the edit button
- fill the (by default empty) field "Distribution" with "4.1" (without quotes)
- click OK
- wait for the refresh to complete and there you have maemo extras

- Once the situation with maemo-extras is fixed, I would suggest to go back and remove the "4.1" value, in order to get back to the default values.

Some technicalities: I noticed that http://repository.maemo.org/extras/d...el/Packages.gz was OK, unlike the one in http://repository.maemo.org/extras/d...el/Packages.gz

The files are almost identical: the one from the 4.1 directory is missing a package (Barrage), but otherwise no differences.

I hope this will help!

PS: if this work-around is not completely non-sensical, does it make sense to add a note to bug #3502 about it?

PS2: I suspect that this workaround can also be applied for Chinook: replace 4.1 by 4.0, and also for earlier releases of ITOS, but I don't have those versions anymore on my device, so I really cannot test...