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

[Matthias Klose]

Jonas Meurer writes:
> 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.

you'll have to wait until python2.5_2.5.1-1 is built and installed on all
architectures.