[Python-modules-team] Bug#409814: python-mysqldb: no python2.5 support

[C. Scott Ananian]

Package: python-mysqldb
Version: 1.2.1-p2-4
Severity: normal

The python-mysqldb package should support python2.5.  Currently no files
are installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/.  For example:

$ python2.4
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jan 13 2007, 17:50:26)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
>>>
$ python2.5
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec  9 2006, 14:35:53)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb
>>>
$

The MySQLdb package ought to work on python2.5, judging from the limited
information available on sourceforge, and I have an unconfirmed report that
this package works with python2.5 in Ubuntu (sigh).

There is a patch in the Ubuntu repository:
 http://patches.ubuntu.com/p/python-mysqldb/python-mysqldb_1.2.1-p2-4ubuntu2.patch
but it seems that a rebuild was all that was necessary to support python2.5.
 --scott

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages python-mysqldb depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmysqlclient15off         5.0.32-3     mysql database client library
ii  python                      2.4.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central              0.5.12       register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

python-mysqldb recommends no packages.

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