Open Stack

On 04/30/2015 05:00 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I propose to replace mysql-python with mysqlclient in OpenStack applications to get Python 3 support, bug fixes and some new features (support MariaDB's libmysqlclient.so, support microsecond in TIME column).

In fact, when looking at the python-mysqldb package description in 
Debian, I can see:

  Mysqlclient is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for
  Python.
  .
  This is a fork of MySQLdb. It add Python 3.3 support and merges some
  pull requests.

Then I saw this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768096

The package is currently only in Debian experimental, but I am betting 
that "soon", the new python-mysqldb package will be uploaded to Sid, and 
it's very likely that Ubuntu will follow (and sync the package from Debian).

As a consequence, I think it'd be much better that OpenStack follows 
that and use the same thing as distributions. I of course don't know 
what Fedora will do, but maybe they may follow the trend...

Also, I've been using that fork without realizing it, and as much as I 
can tell, OpenStack continues to work...

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)