diff --git a/lang/python-mysql/Makefile b/lang/python-mysql/Makefile
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index 0000000000..04ebe5beb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/python-mysql/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2014 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=MySQL-python
+PKG_VERSION:=1.2.5
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).zip
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MySQL-python/
+PKG_MD5SUM:=654f75b302db6ed8dc5a898c625e030c
+
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=python python-setuptools libmysqlclient
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+$(call include_mk, python-package.mk)
+
+define Package/python-mysql
+  SUBMENU:=Python
+  SECTION:=lang
+  CATEGORY:=Languages
+  TITLE:=MySQL database adapter for Python
+  URL:=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python
+  MAINTAINER:=Gergely Kiss <mail.gery@gmail.com>
+  DEPENDS:=+python +libmysqlclient
+endef
+
+define Package/python-mysql/description
+ MySQLdb is an thread-compatible interface to the popular MySQL database
+ server that provides the Python database API.
+endef
+
+define Build/Compile
+	$(call Build/Compile/PyMod,,install --prefix=/usr --root=$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR))
+endef
+
+define Package/python-mysql/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)
+	$(CP) \
+	    $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)/* \
+	    $(1)$(PYTHON_PKG_DIR)
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python-mysql))
diff --git a/lang/python-mysql/patches/010-threadsafe.patch b/lang/python-mysql/patches/010-threadsafe.patch
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index 0000000000..bcd9af8d66
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+++ b/lang/python-mysql/patches/010-threadsafe.patch
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+--- MySQL-python-1.2.2/site_orig.cfg	2007-08-15 12:58:40.000000000 +0200
++++ MySQL-python-1.2.2/site.cfg	2007-08-15 12:58:49.000000000 +0200
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
+ # static: link against a static library (probably required for embedded)
+ 
+ embedded = False
+-threadsafe = True
++threadsafe = False
+ static = False
+ 
+ # The path to mysql_config.