Packages extras seem to get pretty mangled by CKAN's db_fo_form_package_schema() validation. Before validation:
[{u'id': u'ee834033-4771-4e07-8005-bce2a7fe18c6',
u'key': u'genre',
u'package_id': u'ac472ed5-cf72-4ab5-a800-32d30628b7f9',
u'revision_id': u'b6cae82f-742a-4148-8557-fc1454c7ed5f',
u'revision_timestamp': '2013-02-15T14:51:59.815433',
u'state': u'active',
u'value': '"romantic novel"'},