Why has fedpkg suddenly grown a dependency on MySQL-python?

[Tom Lane]

Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:16:01AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I was rather surprised to find a routine "yum update" on my F14 system
>> suddenly wanting to pull in a lot of mysql stuff that I'd not had
>> installed at the moment.

> Are you able to upgrade to a later Fedora?  I think you're seeing this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754538

Yes, that's the same issue, thanks for the reference.

Obviously, I won't be using F14 for very much longer.  What I was
mainly worried about was the possibility that this growth in deps was a
reflection of a new fedpkg version, so that I could expect to have to
contend with the issue even in F15 and beyond.  If the dependencies have
been cleaned up in more recent branches then my concern is minimal.

I do agree with the complainers in the BZ that this was something
inappropriate to do in F14, but what's done is done.  Even if you undid
it, anyone who's done "yum update" recently on an F14 box will have all
those unnecessary deps installed.  Personally, I always do a fresh
install not an upgrade when going to a new Fedora, so the extra deps
won't be permanent baggage for me, but they will be for other people.

			regards, tom lane