Re: sqlite update causes failure of python-sqlalchemy

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> Patch b24765139c8940541b23f84592d3580d53f71d71
>
>  (define-public sqlite
>    (package
>     (name "sqlite")
> -   (version "3.8.11.1")
> +   (version "3.10.0")
>     (source (origin
>
> is the cause of python(2|3)-sqlalchemy breaking. I confirmed that by
> regressing to the original sqlite package. Since the python binding is
> part of the interpreter, I suspect there may be more python modules
> vulnerable. I updated python-sqlalchemy to latest and that makes no
> difference. Its tests fail on sqlite 3.10.0 and pass on 3.8.11.1.
>
> What do we do? Revert on this sqlite patch for the new guix release?
> Or add a second sqlite package and have that as a python dependency?

I would do the latter, assuming that soon a new python-sqlalchemy
release would solve the problem.  WDYT?

This is probably OK since python-sqlalchemy is a leaf, and so we’re
unlikely to end up mixing two different SQLite versions.

Ludo’.