Bug#768096: [Python-modules-team] python mysqldb on python 3
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:24:45 +1100 Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
wrote:
> On 18 November 2014 15:05, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
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> > [...] Maintainers can decide which they prefer and [...]
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> On second thoughts, me thinks this may not be as easy as you suggest. :-(
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> i.e. if package XYZ changes to depend on python-mysqlclient, it is going to
> conflict with every package that depends on python-mysqldb.
True. This is one of the cases that Optional/Extra was designed to cover.
Is the original development inactive? I think it would be at least somewhat
anti-social to switch to a non-friendly fork (no idea if that's relevant
here). What are the circumstances around the fork. I think that's at least
socially significant.
Scott K
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