[EPEL-devel] Re: Should python-mysql be retired in Fedora and EPEL?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

cc-ing the epel-devel list too

On Thu, 2023-02-09 at 14:39 -0600, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>  Dear fellow Fedorans,
>  
>  It seems that python-mysqlclient will now transparently upgrade
>  python-
>  mysql since 2.1.1-2 (for Fedora):
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-mysqlclient/c/1da9400c1c9c8eb8b...
>  and 1.4.6-6 (EPEL 8)
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-mysqlclient/c/cc24faae44f40898b...
>  
>  (python-mysql was never in EPEL9)
>  
>  The two upstreams are the same (python-mysql points to
>  https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python but that just redirects
>  to https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient)
>  
>  However it seems that python-mysql itself is not retired -- should
>  it?
>  Seems like there's no release in which trying to install it won't
>  just
>  install python-mysqlclient instead anyway.
>  
>  The maintainers don't seem to overlap:
>  - python-mysql maintained by mschorm and hobbes1069
>  - python-mysqlclient maintained by fab
>  
>  (the changes to make mysqlclient obsolete mysql are made by non-
>  maintainers)
>  
>  Best regards,
>  
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