Comment # 3 on bug 1087891 from Maximilian Meister

(In reply to Rafael Fern�ndez L�pez from comment #2)
> It looks like the mysql python library is not properly loaded by salt:
> 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/devel:CaaSP:kubic-container/
> kubic-salt-master-image/kubic-salt-master-image.kiwi?expand=1
> 
> This is including `python-PyMySQL`, whereas we were including
> `python-MySQL-python` in IBS. Looks like salt just tries to load `MySQLdb`:
> https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/2016.11/salt/returners/mysql.py#L157-
> L173
> 
> Looks like PyMySQL has some compatibility layer with MySQLdb, but it doesn't
> export `MySQLdb` in any case so salt cannot load it.

thanks for looking into it. i wonder why we use such an old and out of
maintenance library, the (probably literally) last release was Jan 2014

any idea what we need to do if we'd like to port our salt master to PyMySQL?
would we need to patch the salt version, or is that something we need to
propose to upstream salt?