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

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Heya,

> 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).

What I forgot to mention here: Only moving to python-support does not
work for Packages which need python-all-dev to build their .so files.
python-all-dev still does not depend on python2.5-dev, so you'd have to
add it manually to the build dependencies, same for python2.5. This will
lead into pain later, as the package is not binNMU-able when a new
python version comes out. What we really wanna have is python2.5 being
in the list of supported python versions.



Cheers,

Bernd

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Bernd Zeimetz
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