Bug#409814: [Python-modules-team] Bug#409814: python-mysqldb: Adding 2.5 support

[Jonas Meurer]

On 01/05/2007 Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > This module compiles fine with 2.5.  I modified
> > /usr/share/python/debian_defaults and added python2.5 to the list of
> > supported versions, and removed it from teh list of unsupported
> > versions, and then re-made python-mysqldb.
> 
> this is not the way to update packages unfortunately. The real solution
> would be to file a bug against python-minimal and ask for support of
> python2.5 (which will result in pycentral installing the modules for
> 2.5, too) or the other way would be to use python-support for this
> package, as python-support is able to handle other versions than the
> default version just fine (except for a few rare cases).

unfortunately even this doesn't work. if you build the package in a
clean environment without python2.5(-dev) installed, the c extensions
are not built for python2.5.

the only clean fix is to wait for python-all-dev to be updated or
build-depend on python2.5-dev.

...
 jonas