New versions of MySQL disable automatic reconnection by default. This patch modifies mysql-python to have the old behaviour.
Created attachment 104068 [details, diff] 1.2.1_p2-reconnect.patch
Created attachment 104069 [details] mysql-python-1.2.1_p2-r1.ebuild Ebuild to use the new patch
Comment on attachment 104068 [details, diff] 1.2.1_p2-reconnect.patch Patch to re-enable automatic reconnection
It seems to me this should be taken up with upstream.
John, did you report this upstream? If not, can you report this upstream and keep us up-to-date? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22307 Thanks.
It's been a long time since I looked into this, but if I remember correctly upstream was uninterested in the patch.
This doesn't seem like something we should have if upstream doesn't want it.
Going to close this as WONTFIX, should go in upstream.