MySQL Bugs: #119736: mysql-connector-python 9.6.0 misses Python 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 wheels and sdist

Bug #119736	mysql-connector-python 9.6.0 misses Python 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 wheels and sdist
Submitted:	21 Jan 17:08	Modified:	10 Feb 17:05
Reporter:	Jarek Potiuk	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / Python	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	9.6.0	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Bjørn Munch	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The 9.6.0 version of connector https://pypi.org/project/mysql-connector-python/9.6.0/  - misses Python 3.12 and Python 3.13 wheels (possibly also 3.13- it means it will fail when they try to install it for those python versions.

It also misses sdist, which would potentially allow people to build the connector if they have necessary build tools

Compare this: 

https://pypi.org/project/mysql-connector-python/9.6.0/#files

With this:

https://pypi.org/project/mysql-connector-python/9.5.0/#files

The 9.5.0 has a lot more wheel files

How to repeat:
* Install Python 3.12 (3.13, 3.14)
* pip install mysql-connector-python==9.6.0

It fails with:

CPython 3.13 (`cp313`), but `mysql-connector-python` (v9.6.0) only has wheels with the following Python ABI tags: `cp310`, `cp311`

Suggested fix:
Build and deploy the missing wheels.

Any project installation using this connector without version pinning will fail. This is really not good.

This is funny I guess no one else uses this library anyway...

Thank you for reporting. We're looking into the issue and trying to resolve it as soon as possible.

We are still working to resolve this issue. In the meantime, please download MySQL Connector/Python directly from the official MySQL website (https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/).

> We are still working to resolve this issue. In the meantime, please download MySQL Connector/Python directly from the official MySQL website (https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/).

This is impossible. We are releasing our software through PyPI (absolutely vast majority of people who install Python distributions) - and mysql-connector-python is declared as dependency installed from PyPI. We cannot tell our users to download the dependency from your site, this is not how installing Python Packages work - your "workaround" to download packages from your side works for those who install it with OS packages, or build it from sources published by you - so it is not even attempting to solve the problem of those who install Python distributions from PyPI (i.e. vast majority of users)

So no, it is not a usable "workaround" for thousands of our users and us.

Any updates here from the MySQL team on a potential resolution timeline?

Jarek - just pin you dependency to mysql-connector-python==9.5.0 for your library. That what's we did, and pushed a "dummy release" for PyPi.

And for Oracle folks... thanks for ack,  just do an out-of-band new release, even if you have long approval processes, this should take max. a week, not almost a month. (maybe also yank the current version)

> Jarek - just pin you dependency to mysql-connector-python==9.5.0 for your library. That what's we did, and pushed a "dummy release" for PyPi.

Of course - that what we did (actually to != 9.6.0 in the hope that whatever comes next will have propoer release.

But the suggestion to install it from non-PyPI packages is ... impossible ... or mabe even ... lame ? Like not understandig how Python dependencies work?

The missing packages have now been uploaded. 

To explain the situation: all packages were prepared and ready for publication at the same time. However, a storage limitation on PyPi interrupted the publishing process. Additionally, we lost repository administration access, which took some time to resolve. Once our access was restored, we freed up storage space by deleting older releases and were able to upload the remaining packages. 

Also, we have not yanked the "bad" release 9.6.0, as it is a valid release -- it was simply incomplete at first. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Thanks. Attempting to remove the exclusion in Airflow now to confirm if all works https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61740