Pygame-1.8.0 allows backend use of either NumPy or Numeric, whereas previous versions had a hard requirement on Numeric. Numeric is no longer maintained and is being phased out. Please update the requires to use numpy instead (we did this in the OLPC-3 branch). Also, is there any reason why pygame-1.8 has not been put in the F-9 branch?
pygame-1.8.0-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pygame-1.8.0-2.fc9
pygame-1.8.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pygame'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7606
pygame-1.8.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.